[Nhcoll-l] Portable Fume Extractors?

[Shoobs, Nate]

Anyone have a recommendation for a portable/benchtop fume extractor for use when rehousing/examining  specimens in formalin?

For logistical reasons, it’s not practical for us to be transporting these specimens to our dedicated fume hood every time we need to open a jar. It would be ideal to have a setup where an articulating arm could be positioned just above a workstation so that fumes are drawn away from the jar, as I’ve seen in a few other museum labs in the past (Smithsonian MSC comes to mind).

Best,
Nate
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[The Ohio State University]
Nathaniel F. Shoobs
Curator of Mollusks
College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212
614-688-1342 (Office)
mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates<https://mbd.osu.edu/collections/invertebrates>
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