Equipment Requiring Special Handling / Decontamination
Click here for the Notice of Laboratory Equipment Decontamination Form
Any laboratory equipment contaminated or potentially contaminated with biological material, chemicals, or radio-isotopes must be decontaminated prior to removal by or delivery to Surplus Property. In addition, a Notice of Laboratory Equipment Decontamination Form must be completed and affixed to the item.
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These items include (but are not limited to): |
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Biological safety cabinets |
Hoods |
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Centrifuges |
Incubators |
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Cryostats |
Microfuges |
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Dead tanks |
Microwave ovens |
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Environmental chamber |
Ovens |
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Fexetrons |
Refrigerators |
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Freezers |
Shakers |
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Fume Hoods |
Sinks |
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Glassware & plasticware |
Storage cabinets & lockers (used to store chemicals or hazardous waste) |
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Glass & plastic containers |
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Glove boxes |
Water baths |
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The following items must be reviewed and approved for surplusing by EH&S prior to removal by or delivery to Surplus Property:
Chemical Products (commercial use) i.e. paint, cleaners, floor wax, etc.
The following items CANNOT be accepted by Surplus Property:
All chemicals (except those listed above)
Capacitors, Transformers (note: some equipment may contain transformers, such as x-ray equipment and electron microscopes; these transformers may be accepted but must be drained of oil and the oil must have been tested tested and certified by EH&S as being non-PCB)
Gas Cylinders, Pressurized Containers / Vessels
Instruments Containing Mercury (measure temperature or pressure)
Materials containing Asbestos, including but not limited to: Autoclaves, Laboratory ovens, Fire Proof file cabinets, anything that produces high heat
Any equipment containing a radioactive source must be checked by EH&S Radiation Safety Division prior to public sale. Please contact Molly McGee in the Radiation Safety Office at mkmcgee@u.washington.edu or (206) 685-5311. These items include:
Gas chromatographs
Germicidal UV lamps
Lasers
Scintillation counters
X-ray equipment
Any item with a radioactive sticker