Abstract
Type 1 coliphage dried onto a glass surface was used as an indicator to monitor decontamination of biological safety cabinets. When desiccated virus was treated with formaldehyde vapor (5,000 or 10,000 ppm) adjusted to 70 to 90% relative humidity immediately before testing, viral inactivation was slow for the first 50 min but then accelerated, being complete in the next 10 min. However, when virus was incubated in an atmosphere containing 70% humidity for 1 h before formaldehyde was added, inactivation was complete within 3 min, indicating that careful attention must be paid to relative humidity in decontamination of safety cabinets.
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