[Recommendations for preventing transmission of infection with biohazard in the practice of legal medicine (2). Equipment and practical applications. The Medico-Legal Society of Japan, Committee on Expert Opinions].

In May, 1993, our committee of the Medico-Legal society of Japan published an article entitled "Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infection with Biohazard in the Practice of Legal Medicine" in The Japanese Journal of Legal Medicine. Concerning this article, we received a lot of useful comments and opinions from many members of the society, for which we are very grateful. We also received a lot of requests for further information concerning details on the equipment and its practical applications. Since a lot of departments of Legal Medicine at several universities throughout Japan at present are remodelling their facilities in order to be able to perform autopsies, with respect to such circumstances, our committee felt the need to provide information on basic conditions concerning the prevention of transmission of infections with hazards.