Services that we conduct for our customers

Service and Facilities Unit

Facilities

·         Positive pressure animal and research rooms to reduce pathogen from contaminate the rooms.

·         Individual access system on every animal and research rooms.

·         Three breeding rooms for production of SPF mice and rats.

·         All SPF laboratory rodents are placed in Individual Ventilated Cages (IVC) to prevent adventitious microbial agents.

·         There are two spacious research rooms. These two rooms use HEPA filtration system, with controlled temperature between 21 to 23°c, and relative humidity in a range of 50 to 60%.

·         Two autoclave machine available in this facility for decontamination and sterilization of equipment, animal feed, bedding, and cages.

·         Two dressing rooms and bathrooms for men and women equipped with toilets, and lockers adequate for researchers.

·         Using two corridor concept, clean and dirty corridor. Unidirectional flow inside the facility. Researchers will enter the facility through clean corridor and exit via dirty corridor.

·         Two research rooms for housing SPF animals used for research.

Services

·         To breed and produce SPF laboratory animal especially mice and rats in a large scale as to meet the market needs.

·         To sell SPF laboratory animal to researchers from UPM and others.

·         To sell SPF laboratory animal to researchers that conduct their study in this facility.

·         To provide space and the state of art facilities to researchers from within and outside UPM to conduct research work at the facility.

·         To conduct training and courses to postgraduate students and researchers from inside and outside UPM on laboratory animal use and research.

·         To provide advice and veterinary consultancy on the laboratory animals use and research.

·         24 hours Veterinary Services to look after on management, health, husbandry and care of SPF laboratory animal.