the interior of the enclosure to the surrounding environment. A fume hood, a containment enclosure, with the sash up allows full accessibility to the interior of the fume hood but provides poor containment of toxic and obnoxious fume hood contamination. On the other extreme, one has very poor and limited access to the interior of a glove box but has high level of isolation of the enclosure contents. The Continuous Access Port solves this dilemma by offering total access to the interior of an enclosure with a high level of containment to keep contaminants from escaping into the surrounding environment where it can do harm to personnel and the environment. Other applications of the Continuous Access Port technology platform will be developed in medical, industrial and hazardous material remediation markets