{"id":2221,"date":"2018-12-23T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T05:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite-dev.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=2221"},"modified":"2020-01-04T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T00:36:45","slug":"environmental-monitoring-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=2221","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facility environment is maintained by routine practices (e.g. sanitation and control of voice in animal rooms) and engineering setting (e.g. setting of ventilation and lighting system). The following monitoring practices aim at timely detection of error affecting quality of\u00a0 laboratory animals and animal well-being.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Facility surfaces<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Contact plate\/swab bacterial and fungal colony count<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Air in barriers<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CFU count on settle plates or\u00a0\u00a0volumetric samples<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Temperature and humidity<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Data logging on BMS and daily local equipment reading.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Noise<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Suspicious source of ultrasound in area holding species sensitive to ultrasound\u00a0are scanned by ultrasound detector.\u00a0Suspicious devices include new electronic\/electric equipment and equipment with metallic joins or sliding parts.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Room pressurization<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Data logging on BMS and local observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facility environment is maintained by routine practices (e.g. sanitation and control of voice in animal rooms) and engineering setting (e.g. setting of ventilation and lighting system). The following monitoring practices aim at timely detection of error affecting quality of\u00a0 laboratory animals and animal well-being. Facility surfaces Contact plate\/swab bacterial and fungal colony count Air in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=2221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Environmental Monitoring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2221\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}