PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Edward Charles Tidswell
AU  - Radha Tirumalai
AU  - David Hussong
TI  - Fidelity to Science & Correct Scientific Vocabulary – Microbial Control Versus Contamination Control
AID  - 10.5731/pdajpst.2018.009795
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology
PG  - pdajpst.2018.009795
4099  - http://journal.pda.org/content/early/2019/05/15/pdajpst.2018.009795.short
4100  - http://journal.pda.org/content/early/2019/05/15/pdajpst.2018.009795.full
AB  - More than at any other moment in our history it is imperative that we maintain a fidelity to sound science, engineering and ensure the correct use of the associated scientific vocabulary. This is especially the case with respect to pharmaceutical microbiology and its practice in ensuring adequate and effective controls in the manufacture of safe and efficacious therapeutics. Here, the current state of challenges and headwinds to pharmaceutical microbiology are described and how these are intimately linked with fidelity to sound science, engineering and correct use of the associated scientific vocabulary. This is illustrated through the specific example of a miss-use of the term ‘microbial contamination’ within regulatory guidance and the adverse consequences that all stakeholders (patients, prescribers, industry, regulators, standard setting bodies) will encounter.