Comment · Wed, October 20, 2021 · ND Owner
Reddit AMA | In-House Lab Edition
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NootropicsDepotGuru · 77 points
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We are very excited to announce that Nootropics Depot will be conducting its first-ever Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), which is a semi-live Q&A session, about our In-House Analytical Laboratory and we would love for you to join us! See below for full details and get your question(s) ready. We hope to see you there!
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S0GGYS4L4DS · 1 points
Does Nootropics Depot have a quarantine procedure if the lab(s) were to ever be contaminated? I’m expecting something like a quarantine, smoke masks, etc. Thank you.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
We do have many procedures for both the protection of our employees, but also to ensure there is no contamination of products. This was especially needed when the pandemic started. In March 2020 we developed a pandemic response plan for our entire facility. We have been operating under that pandemic response plan ever since. Nobody is allowed to enter our facility without a face mask. No outside visitors are allowed to enter the production facility or lab. All employees are familiar with the plan, and if they feel sick they know they are not supposed to reenter our facility till they have a negative COVID test and no longer have symptoms. If they do have COVID, they are to quarantine at home and not come back to work till they have two successive negative tests. Everybody takes it very seriously, and has since I had an all-hands meeting at the start of the pandemic to explain everything. Because of our efforts, not a single case of COVID transmission has happened at our facility. We have had some employees catch it, but that was from outside of work functions, and they properly quarantined to ensure they did not give it to their coworkers. Other businesses in our park have had to completely shut down multiple times because of outbreaks, but not us. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and we have treated things as seriously as they needed to be treated since the start.
As far as other protections, we have tons of processes and procedures for all manner of possible situations in the lab and production environment. We have eye wash stations and chemical showers in case of harmful chemical exposure. We have fume hoods that pull out any harmful fumes from the lab. Our production environments and lab are all positively pressured and HEPA filtered, and those filters are monitored and changed on a regular schedule. We have full face respirators in the lab and production areas, along with protective eye wear, gloves, masks, hearing protection, and other equipment to ensure our employees are safe. All surfaces and equipment is cleaned and sterilized daily. You are about as protected as you can be in our lab and production environments. No Rage virus transmissions happening here!