Laminar Flow Hood

Description

A Laminar flow hood/cabinet is an enclosed workstation that creates a contamination-free work environment through filters to capture all the particles entering the cabinet.

• These cabinets protect the work from the environment and are most useful for the aseptic distribution of specific media and plate pouring.
• Laminar flow cabinets are similar to biosafety cabinets with the only difference being that in laminar flow cabinets the effluent air is drawn into the face of the user.
• In a biosafety cabinet, both the sample and user are protected while in the laminar flow cabinet, only the sample is protected and not the user.