Research laboratory
Researchers working with Class III cabinets at the USBWL, Camp Detrick , Maryland (1940s). Cabinet air was filtered and drawn by negative pressure from the room and cabinet systems.
The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick , Maryland , United States, beginning in 1943 under the control of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command . The USBWL undertook research and development into biocontainment , decontamination , gaseous sterilization , and agent production and purification for the U.S. offensive biological warfare program .[1] The laboratories and their projects were discontinued in 1969.
^ Martin, James W., George W. Christopher and Edward M. Eitzen (2007), "History of Biological Weapons: From Poisoned Darts to Intentional Epidemics", In: Dembek, Zygmunt F. (2007), Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare Archived 2012-08-27 at the Wayback Machine , (Series: Textbooks of Military Medicine ), Washington, DC : The Borden Institute , pg 5.