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Do biological safety cabinets (BSC) at MIT have to be vented to the outside?

April 26, 2017biological BSC cabinets MIT outside safety vented

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Do biological safety cabinets (BSC) at MIT have to be vented to the outside?

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It is the policy of the MIT Committee on the Assessment of Biohazards (CAB) that all BSCs are vented to the outside to provide a margin of safety in case of a HEPA filter failure. BSC vented to the outside prevent air from re-entering the laboratory and provide some control of chemical vapors that may be generated by some research.