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Dugway has been under scrutiny recently for issues regarding the handling of deadly airborne pathogens.<\/p>\n

Bernie Youngblood, founder and president of Priorclave North America, is concerned these lapses aren\u2019t getting the public attention they deserve. \u201cNot a lot of people will recall that the last recorded smallpox death in the world wasn\u2019t some 19th century epidemic or Cold War era germ warfare experiment run amok: It was a lab tech in Birmingham, England in 1978, and she got sick precisely because of this sort of procedural problem. The public uproar led to substantial changes to both lab methods and how sterilizers themselves are built and operated, and we\u2019re all safer for it. Priorclave\u2014which is a UK-based company\u2014was on the cutting edge of those improvements, and lab safety has been a top priority for Priorclave ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Youngblood sees the Dugway lapse as indicative of an ongoing problem with how pathogenic hazards are handled in the U.S., and it starts with education: \u201cThe fact is, here in the U.S. we just do not have a solid \u2018best practices\u2019 approach to teaching the safe and proper operation of lab autoclaves,\u201d he observed. \u201cWe don\u2019t teach the principles of cycle validation. In many programs, students have very limited hands-on experience operating modern research autoclaves\u2013sometimes owing to liability concerns, sometimes because the autoclaves they have are overcomplicated medical-grade units poorly suited to a teaching environment, and sometimes because there simply aren\u2019t enough properly functioning autoclaves<\/a> installed in the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, university is where training should begin and Priorclave is working to stem the tide of autoclave-shy researchers. We offer training and support for the lifetime of our units, which are optimized for safe, easy, reliable operation. We want our\u00a0customers to use their autoclaves with confidence in both results and safety.<\/p>\n

[photo credit: UC Davis College of Engineering, CC BY 2.0<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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