Bioaerosols - Aerosols: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects - page 318

TABLE 12.2
Bioaerosol Samplers

Sampling
Rate (L/min)

Sampler Principle of Operation Manufacturer/Supplier Commercial Name Application

Slit agar impactors
Rotating slit or
slit-to-agar impactors

Impaction onto agar on rotating surfaces 28 Barramundi Corp. Mattson-Garvin Air Sampler C

175-700 Casella Ltd. Casella Airborne Bacteria Sampler C

Impactors
Single-stage impactors Impaction onto agar 10, 20 Burkard Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Burkard Portable Air Sampler for Agar

Plates

C

28 Thermo Scientiic Single Stage N6 (Viable Andersen

Cascade Impactor)

C

28 Aerotech Laboratories, Inc. Aerotech 6 Bioaerosol Sampler C

28 Zefon International Zefon A-6 C

28 EMS ems E-6 Sampler C

28 EMS Biocassette a C

28 SKC Inc. Biostage Bioaerosol Impactor C

30-120 Zefon International Bioculture Microbial Air Sampler C

28, 71, 142 Veltek Associates, Inc. Sterilizable Microbiological Atrium

(SMA): Micro Sampler and
MicroPortable Viable Air Sampler

C

100 or 180 International PBI; Scientiic Products

Corp.; Bioscience International

Surface-Air-Sampler (SAS): Super 100
Sampler, HiVac Impact, HiVAC Petri,
Super 180 Sampler, SAS Duo, SAS
Isolator, SAS PCR

C

1000 Bioscience International SAS Pinocchio Super II Air Sampler C

100 F.W. Parrett Ltd MicroBio Air Samplers: MB1, MB2 C

100, 200 Microbiology International Sampl'Air Air Sampler C

100 Merck KGaA/VWR Scientiic Products

Corp.

Merck Air Sampler MAS 100 C

140, 180 Millipore Corp. M Air T, Millipore Air Tester C