Dow AgroSciences Cleans Lab Floors Hygienically Using High Flow Fluid Extraction (HFFE) Technology While research laboratories must be clean, labs performing biotech work involving cell cultures and molecular biology must be pristine - if not sterile. According to Cathy Peacock, a Senior Microbiologist in the Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, Bioprocess R&D function, while their lab facilities had always been clean, it was critical that even tiny amounts of invisible biocontaminants be thoroughly removed as her group embarked upon more specialized biotech work. "Through environmental monitoring techniques - before and after hygiene measurements involving an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) luminometer and cell counts from RODAC plates - we had data showing that floor cleaning using traditional

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