A SCIENTIFIC SAFETY ALLIANCE COMPANY

Biosafety cabinet certification

Regulatory Guidance / Test Methods:

We offer testing, certification, and maintenance of biological safety cabinets. We certify BSCs to meet NSF-49, OSHA, NIH/CDC, and manufacturer’s standards. Our reports are supplied electronically same day.

BSC tests should be conducted whenever units are installed, moved, or following any significant maintenance. NSF 49 recommends that certifications be done annually, with more frequent certifications (semi-annual) performed for BSCs in cGMP environments. Biosafety cabinet testing and certification is critical to ensuring product and patient safety.

Primary Services

Ensures proper inflow is maintained for operator protection and environmental protection.
Documents the air in the work area is unidirectional and functioning as designed, preventing cross contamination, and providing product protection from the environment.
Documents leakage or defects and ensures HEPA filters provide required filtration to prevent both product and environmental contamination.
Qualitatively verifies airflow directions using a small source of visible fog.
Confirms alarm performance and assesses installation of units for NSF and OSHA compliance.

Additional Services

Performed in accordance with ISO 14644-1 or EC Annex 1, and provides a quantitative evaluation of air quality in terms of particulate in the work area.
Verifies hood operation/usage will not contribute to worker fatigue/stress and may be performed in association with troubleshooting.
Ensures product is not subject to damage due to vibration and may be performed in association with troubleshooting.
Ensures fluorescent lighting levels are sufficient to prevent operator fatigue.
Decontamination ensures the unit is non-infectious and compliant with regulatory standards.
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Why Choose CSI Testing

CSI has tested and certified controlled environments for over 45 years. When we started CSI testing we serviced Minneapolis and the surrounding areas. Today we service the entire Midwest. Our team has over 100 collective years of experience in the industry, serving over 600 medical device, pharmaceutical, academic, and other clients.

We test, certify, and service all controlled environments, including cleanrooms, biosafety cabinets, fume hoods, and isolators. We provide biosafety cabinets, cleanbenches and fume hood reports the same-day, and turnaround electronic cleanroom reports in two weeks. For any emergency, we can get a technician to your site quickly.

We are proudly 100% founder and employee owned. CSI is a certified minority business enterprise.

Experience

45 years of company history

Quality

Highly trained technicians (average 10-year tenure)

Report Turnaround

2 weeks for cleanrooms, same-day for hoods, BSCs, etc.

Urgency

We take emergency calls seriously. We can get technicians on-site quickly

People

Founder and employee-owned. Certified minority business enterprise

Our Locations

We are a regional service provider

We primarily service the below states:

Minnesota
Minneapolis
Saint Paul
Rochester

Illinois
Chicago
Aurora
Joliet

Iowa
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Davenport

Nebraska
Omaha
Lincoln
Bellevue

South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Rapid City

Indiana
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Evansville

Kansas
Wichita
Overland Park
Kansas City

Michigan
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Warren

Missouri
Kansas City
St Louis
Springfield

We also service these additional states through our sister companies at the Scientific Safety Alliance:

As a regional service provider, CSI Testing provides scientific safety services across the United States. We offer regional coverage through our network of partner companies to better serve your facilities.