Blog Post Archive
Understanding Common Lab Solvents
Solvents are a class of chemicals defined by their function. Solvents are used to dissolve, suspend or extract other materials without chemically changing the components.
There are more than 1000 solvent varieties used in research, spectroscopy, analytical chemistry and manufacturing industries. They come in Research, Technical, USP, HPLC, LCMS, ACS Reagent, ASTM Types 1-IV, NIST Traceable, and Spectral grades, as well as molecular biology grades and pre-made mixtures as DNAse-free solut
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18th Aug 2022
Safe + Sound Week 2019: A Safe Workplace is a Sound Workplace
What is safe and sound week?A safe workplace is a sound business. Every August a
nationwide event is organized by OSHA to bring attention to workplace safety
and highlight successful workplace safety programs. Participation is voluntary
and it’s easy to sign up. How can I create a Safety and Health Program?Every workplace is unique and requires special consideration
for the dangers therein. There are different activities that can help raise
important questions about safety and get the conve
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7th Aug 2019
The Story of CP Lab Safety
For over 20 years CP Lab Safety has been working to keep
you and your workplace healthy and safe. Starting in 1996, we set out with a
vision of creating healthy laboratories around the world with our flagship
product, ECO Funnel. The beginning was a challenge because many people were not
interested in protecting the environment and did not want to follow safe
chemical disposal procedures. Simply allowing chemicals to evaporate in a fume
hood was the most common method of disposal. Howe
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4th Apr 2019
Is Your HPLC /UPLC Waste Collection OSHA Compliant?
What Hazards are Associated with your HPLC / UPLC and LCMS/MS?
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), or Ultra High-Pressure
Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) is a process used by synthetic or analytical chemists
to separate, identify and quantify each component in a mixture. This process can help in many different
applications such as research and development, analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical
manufacturing, research of components in complex biological samples, and
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8th Mar 2018
CP Lab Safety Now Offering Bottle Cleaning and Sterilization Services
CP Lab Safety now
offers sterilization services for most of their containers. Bottles and
containers can either be sterilized through E-Beam Radiation, or undergo Level
1 certified cleaning to remove particles and impurities. A variety of different
glass and plastic containers can undergo these premium cleaning procedures.CP Lab Safety
utilizes the only X-Ray and DEA approved E-Beam facility in the USA. The
cleaning facility is ISO 11137 and ISO 13485 certified, FDA registered, DEA
regist
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10th Mar 2017