PALMDALE, CALIF. - March
6, 2007 - Delta Scientific, the leading manufacturer of counter-terrorist vehicle
control systems used in the United States and internationally, today announced
the shipment of it first bio-defense Mail Room Inspection BioBooth to a U.S.
embassy in Europe. Self-contained, prefabricated, pre-wired and UL-listed, the
BioBooth mail screening booth has been designed for inspectors to safely receive
and open mail, isolating the rest of the staff and facility from exposure if
bio-hazards are delivered.
"Designed with major input from the U.S. Department of State, our new BioBooth
concept will be the first line of biological weapons defense for many governmental
and corporate organizations worldwide," reports David Dickinson, Delta
Scientific senior vice president. "This is extremely important when one
realizes the lethality of a single gram of anthrax spores and the ease of distributing
it by mail."
The Mail Room Inspection BioBooth will be typically installed outside of a main
building or inside a shipping and receiving warehouse. When attacked by biological
hazards, facilities such as post offices will no longer face a lengthy closure.
Upon discovering contaminated mail, the BioBooth can be sealed, quickly unbolted,
and safely removed from public areas for decontamination.
Delta's new Mail Room Inspection BioBooths feature outer and inner workrooms
with sealed doors, lighting and hospital style floors. Each room has long countertops
and open spaces for staging, sorting and prospective decontamination. A bench
top-mounted HEPA-filtered laboratory hood with UV sterilization is pre-installed
and may be flexibly positioned to isolate and protect the inspector opening
the packages. The booths have controllable drainage and an internal wash-down
hose bib. An optional sub-floor basin catches the contaminated liquid for removal
through a valve into a disposal container.
The units fit into sea-going open top shipping containers and are available
in a wide range of national and international voltages. Both standard and custom
size BioBooths are available.
Besides booths, Delta builds seven broad classes of counter terrorist vehicle
barricade systems, including beam barricades, wedge barricades, bollards, sliding
gates, shallow foundation high security barricades, surface mounted barricades
and portable barricades.