Singapore, July 28, 2011 – Esco sponsored the 2011 Bio Safety Security Defence - BioSSD International Congress & Exhibition held at Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur from July 18 to July 20, 2011. The event was split into two parts – Conference and Exhibition.
Because of increased
awareness on risks deriving from infectious diseases in the Asia
Pacific, the government of Malaysia together with its collaborators
managed to organize an event focusing on Biosafety and Biosecurity.
The
highlights of the conference covered the effective implementation and
compliance of biological weapons, the complimentary role of environment
and security biological control regimes in the 21st century, global
cooperation in countering emerging and infectious zoonotic diseases,
roles of international organizations on building global capacity to
combat biothreats, biosecurity in the age of global travel, ethical
dilemmas in dual use research, codes of conduct in a web of prevention,
and education and awareness about the biological weapons convention.
Furthermore,
Esco’s Senior Vice President, Mr. Lim Lay Yew, was invited to give a talk
during the event and his speech was directed toward the discussion of
Biological Safety Cabinet Classification and Comparison between the
American Standard NSF 49 & European standard EN 12469.
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cleanroom equipment solutions. Products sold in more than 100 countries include air showers,
biological safety cabinets,
downflow booths,
ductless fume hoods,
fan filter units,
hospital pharmacy isolators,
IVF workstations,
lab animal research products,
laboratory fume hoods,
laboratory incubators,
laboratory ovens,
laminar flow cabinets,
microplate shaker/incubators,
PCR cabinets,
thermal cyclers and
powder weighing balance enclosures.