The two principal purposes of an environmental monitoring program are to provide an
assessment of the general microbiological cleanliness of an operation and to assess the …

The qualification, or requalification, of an aseptic manufacturing facility depends in large part
on the demonstration of controlled microbial conditions. The following are several areas …

Patient-care practices, which usually involve direct personal contact between patients and
staff, are the most important factors influencing preventable nosocomial infections. However …

Contamination control in pharmaceutical clean rooms has developed from a jumble of
science and engineering, knowledge of what has worked well or badly in the past …

To determine the relationship between the sampling time of the environmental monitoring,
ie, viable counts, in aseptic filling areas and the microbial count and frequency of alerts for …

The ECSs play a central role in preventing microbial contamination into sterile products
delivered by the parenteral route. Maintenance of the product's sterility during manufacturing …

Background The 4 monitoring methods used to manage the quality assurance of cleaning
outcomes within health care settings are visual inspection, microbial recovery, fluorescent …

Background: Recent publicity has highlighted both the inadequacies of hospital cleaning
and high levels of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in UK …

Microbiological monitoring of “Clean rooms” generates a large number of results, which are
used, in the first instance, to determine that product or patient have not been exposed to an …

Successful cleaning of medical devices and instruments requires both careful selection of
materials and consistent monitoring of the procedures used to process them. Chemical …