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Quality Assurance
The Baker commitment to the life science, pharmaceutical, research and hospital/clinical industry provides an added value to each biological safety cabinet fume hood and clean bench manufactured in our facility.

Benefits of Baker quality assurance programs include:

• Research and evaluation of operating characteristics specific to biological safety cabinets and other products under the influence of controlled airflow environments.
• Testing, verification and documentation of performance on existing products within a variety of operating conditions.
• Improving performance, cost effectiveness and comfort of existing designs.
• Standard product quality control sampling, statistical analysis, verification and documentation.
• New product development

Baker Manufacturing
The Baker Company headquarters occupies a 120,000 sq.ft. manufacturing facility in Sanford, Maine, housing all company activities including sales, marketing, customer service, engineering and design, research, microbiological testing and quality control.

Our Sanford facility is also the headquarters for the Eagleson Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to education and training in support of our customers and industry professionals worldwide.

Microbiological And Quality Testing
The Baker Company is the only biological safety cabinet manufacturer to routinely subject its own equipment to extensive microbiological aerosol testing. This testing is the definitive criterion of performance and serves as the control for our extensive physical testing procedures as well.

• The Baker biological laboratory maintains the industry’s most complete and continuous quality assurance testing program, assuring that every Baker cabinet adheres to the highest performance standards.
• Staff microbiologists conduct basic and applied research, assist in new product development and evaluate each aerosol test. The lab includes an area for culturing and measuring bacteria. Researchers work in a sophisticated gas-tight room supplied with HEPA-filtered air.
• Tests are performed on cabinets selected by the Baker Quality Assurance Department based on our statistical sampling method.
• Testing procedures are designed to challenge cabinets under a variety of conditions, usually more severe than normal everyday use or demands set by applicable industry testing standards.
• All selected cabinets, including all modified and custom-manufactured products, are subjected to microbiological tests using bacillus subtilis var. niger spores for determining personnel protection, product protection and cross-contamination within the cabinet.

Airflow Management Laboratory
The Airflow Management Laboratory is a dynamic addition to The Baker Company, providing a range of physical data on the performance of fume hoods, clean benches and biological safety cabinets.

• In this computerized, state-of-the-art research laboratory, various laboratory airflow environments, from common to extreme, can be simulated and controlled.
• Valuable information generated through our in-house air management lab helps Baker engineering teams improve the performance of existing designs as well as develop new products.

Physical Testing And Documentation
Extensive physical tests are performed on every fume hood, clean bench and biological safety cabinet prior to shipment.

• The physical test report is filed by serial number as a permanent record maintained by Baker.
• The test report includes testing of HEPA filters, precise readings of intake and exhaust air velocity, airflow pattern evaluations, leak-tightness and electrical tests.