New features in the EN12469:2025
Instructor Matthias Bittner
The course explains why the standard for microbiological safety cabinets (BSCs) EN12469:2000 needed updating. How the European standards group came into being for the review. How such an international group operates. The renewed European standard EN12469:2025 is presented, along with its main features and published parts. It details the changes to performance criteria, their testing and the servicing of the devices. It also explains what to look out for when purchasing, installing and routinely maintaining BSCs.
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Matthias Bittner
Current Position:
2002 – today: expert cleanroom technology
Consultant Standards & Cleanroom TechnologyExperience
- 2002 - 2016 Head of services cleanroom technology Switzerland, with 15 technicians
Support for numerous Swiss clean rooms and laboratories (including biosafety labs) - 2016 - today: Standards development, member of CEN TC 332/WG08 Biosafety cabinets, WG 04 Fume cupboards, member of ISO TC 209/WG07 Cleanroom technology, separative devices, AHG 03 Test procedures
- 2016 – today: Active research in new containment testing procedures
Member of Swiss Biosafety Network (SBNet), Swiss Society for Occupational Hygiene (SSOH), American Industrial Association for OEHS (AIHA), International Institute for sustainable labs (I2SL), Swiss CCS.
- 2002 - 2016 Head of services cleanroom technology Switzerland, with 15 technicians