Title:

Secondary Barriers in Representative P4 Facility

Creator:

United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Office of Research Safety
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Special Committee of Safety and Health Experts

Date:

[July 1978]

Description:

This Supplement to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research provided schematic construction blueprints as well as detailed descriptions of safety equipment and comprehensive safety instructions for laboratories involved in recombinant DNA research. To be certified as a P4-level, or high containment, laboratory, shown above, a facility had to have multiple ventilation systems, airlocks, autoclaves for the sterilization of equipment, and treatment systems for waste products. In order to comply with the Guidelines, government agencies, universities, and private industry upgraded their laboratories during the second half of the 1970s.

Publisher:

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints
Excerpts
Monographs

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

One Piece Positive Pressure Ventilated Suits, 1978

Legacy Source Citation:

Monograph. United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Cancer Institute. Office of Research Safety, and Special Committee of Safety and Health Experts. "Secondary Barriers in Representative P4 Facility." National Institutes of Health Laboratory Safety Monograph: A Supplement to the NIH Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research. National Institutes of Health (U.S.), [July 1978]. P. 154. Excerpt. Monograph. Photographic Print. 1 Image.

Legacy ID:

FFBBMD

NLM ID:

101584939X190

Profiles Collection:

The Donald S. Fredrickson Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584939X190

Story Section:

The Controversy over the Regulation of Recombinant DNA Research, 1975-1981