A Contamination Control Strategy (CCS) outlines a means of identifying and analyzing risk, reviewing mitigating innovations and opportunities, and ultimately defining preventive and corrective action ...

Advanced biologics and patient-specific therapies reduce opportunities for terminal sterilization, elevating proactive microbial risk control and integrating QC microbiology into CCS authorship, risk ...

Pharmaceutical manufacturers engaged in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, home and personal care, and other related manufacturing industries need to be meticulous in creating and ...

One of the main goals of pharmaceutical regulatory rules is to keep environmental contamination at a minimum. According to the EU GMP Annex 1 regulatory standard for sterile drug products, a ...

Exposure to chemical and biological contaminants on the fire ground is an increasing concern for long-term fire fighter health. Cancer and other diseases resulting from chronic exposures has become a ...

To control the contamination resistance of polymer surfaces, surface hydrophobization and hydrophilization were attempted by two atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) treatments. Poly(ethylene ...

A perspective from Cosmos on global warming and the ethics of science—and the origin of clean rooms and lead-free gasoline. This week’s episode of the new Cosmos was particularly interesting because ...

Researchers and therapeutic manufacturers have long relied on classical microbiological methods to check their samples and surfaces for microbial contamination, primarily using lengthy ...

In medical testing and laboratory settings, pumps are needed to move biological samples such as blood, serum, cells, and proteins. However, these same samples can contaminate a pump’s internal ...

Environmental surfaces and equipment in healthcare environments act as reservoirs for a wide range of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungi. These inanimate surfaces, or fomites, can ...