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About California Pacific Lab Safety (CP Lab Safety)
CP Lab Safety is a Woman-Owned, California Small Business certified manufacturer of environmentally conscious laboratory safety products and distributor of leading lab supply brands. Our goal is to make businesses and laboratories safer so that workers can stay healthy and work more productively. CP Lab Safety was awarded a GSA Schedule 66 Contract (#GS-07F-238AA) in 2013 in order to further grow its business relationship with the US government, though it continues to serves businesses and individuals across the globe. CP Lab Safety founder and president CP Lab Safety is a Woman Owned BusinessThrough an extensive portfolio of more than 10,000 laboratory safety products, CP Lab Safety is helping labs to reduce their emissions of waste into the air and water, reduce the risk of fire, and reduce workers’ exposure to toxic fumes. CP Lab Safety’s patented signature product, ECO Funnel®, has revolutionized the way open waste containers are handled and is used at leading pharmaceutical, biotech, industrial, academic and government institutions worldwide. Our Mission: To keep people healthy & safe. Our Vision: To be the best safety company in the world. Our Beginning Dr. Ron Najafi founded CP Lab Safety in 1996 in the basement of his San Francisco home, with the help of his wife Kelly Farhangi Najafi. A chemist with an entrepreneurial spirit, Dr. Najafi had an idea for a simple product that would reduce emissions from open waste containers in laboratories. The idea for CP Lab Safety grew out of Dr. Najafi’s personal experiences in the biotech industry in the 1990s. The EPA and other regulators were increasingly scrutinizing the safety practices of laboratories, and Dr. Najafi understood why.(Read an Interview with the Founder.) As a chemist and member of the safety committee at his company, Dr. Najafi had become sensitized to the growing problem of laboratory fumes escaping from open waste containers. In an experiment, they determined the emission levels from waste containers left open in their lab. It became clear that volatile fumes evaporating and spreading throughout the lab at unacceptable rates. To address this issue, Dr. Najafi developed a uniquely designed funnel with a long tube and a lid that screwed securely onto a solvent bottle. Thus was born the First Generation ECO Funnel and the company CP Lab Safety (originally California Pacific Lab Safety). Since then the ECO Funnel has gone through two design changes and is now in its Third Generation, which incorporates a latching lid with an inner gasket that prevents 99% of chemical emissions from escaping. It is widely used in educational, pharmaceutical, chemical and biotech industries.