The AST Vertical Laminar Air Flow cabinet or Clean Bench designed to maintain ISO Class 5 (formerly Class 100) clean air. HEPA filtered laminar air down flow over the work area to protect products or samples being handled in the cabinet from dust or biological contaminants such as bacteria, fungus and genetic materials. Various applications in plant tissue culture, microbial inoculation, media preparation, PCR, electronic or medical parts inspection and assembly where dust particles and contaminants should not be present in the air of working area essentially needed. A digital inverter and one 18W UV tubes have been included to ensure the material placed inside, as well as the entire work surface, is completely sterile, thus preventing any possible crosscontamination between the DNA and RNA samples that may give rise to false-positives. The 4mm-thick tempered glass works as a filter to protect the personnel and the environment from UV radiation.
