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bioMérieux celebrates 10th anniversary of BioBall– 13-Jun-2013
Revolutionary solution for quantitative microbiological quality control verifies performance of control methods
Process validation – a systematic approach– 10-Jun-2013
Process validation can be used as a very powerful tool for ensuring the consistent high quality manufacture of products
Thermo Fisher opens second PASS facility in US– 4-Jun-2013
Offers rapid product evaluation to address safety and quality issues
Cherwell supports Pharmig disinfectant implementation seminar– 30-May-2013
One-day seminar aims to outline the process for selecting the most effective disinfectant product by generating a compliant and comprehensive validation package
Rapid Micro Biosystems to stage hands-on workshops – 16-May-2013
Company hosts live demonstrations of the Growth Direct System at new European headquarters in Munich, Germany
World Bank welcomes India TB lab network improvements– 14-May-2013
Improvement in the quality of laboratory services and 42 reference laboratories created by 2012
Vaisala organises seminar on mapping and monitoring in GMP environments – 8-May-2013
Free event in Birmingham is aimed at professionals involved in measuring or monitoring in regulated life science environments
Merck Millipore introduces APC SmartTouch airborne particle counter– 1-May-2013
Reduces cleanroom certification and monitoring costs
bioMérieux launches test for rapid enumeration of total flora in food products– 29-Apr-2013
TEMPO AC automated test will help agri-food laboratories save time and release their product faster
Successful FDA inspection for UK contract laboratory company – 26-Apr-2013
Wickham Laboratories receives positive feedback on its excellent facilities, staff expertise and GMP systems
Charles River offers endotoxin and microbial detection webinars– 26-Apr-2013
Free webinars provide further technical information and education for clients
Charles River signs partnership agreement with Bruker – 26-Apr-2013
Charles River to sell the Axcess System, a MALDI Biotyper solution for environmental monitoring applications
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Preserving reference cultures for QC and compliance– 28-May-2013
Reference cultures play an integral part in the procedures that are involved in effective cleaning, disinfection and environmental monitoring of production plants. One of the most important elements of maintaining any collection of reference cultures is ensuring the genetic stability of the strains within it; working cultures should therefore be no more than five generations removed from the original reference culture, and need a system for preserving and maintaining reference cultures with their original characteristics
Biocontamination control – moves toward a better standard – 28-Mar-2013
A review process of the biocontamination control standard ISO14698 has begun. The standard is chiefly concerned with environmental monitoring, but has not been widely adopted because it is not mentioned in any GMP guidance, not does it offer details on how environmental monitoring should be undertaken. The comprehensive review should raise its profile.
DSMZ houses public collection of spacecraft-associated bacteria – 1-Feb-2013
Spacecraft are assembled in cleanrooms under the strict controls for bio-contamination as once sent into space the risk of biological contamination of other planets is high. Space agencies have defined standards by which to measure the bioburden and diversity of microbial species in the cleanrooms and on the spacecraft. The European Space Agency (ESA) is funding a collection of microbial strains from spaceflight hardware and associated assembly facilities at the DSMZ. This collection is an important resource for research institutes and industry to investigate adaptive mechanisms of bacteria (for instance, resistance to heat, UV radiation, ionizing radiation, desiccation, disinfectants).
Pharmig celebrates 20 years of microbiology forums– 30-Jan-2013
Celebrating its 20th year of existence Pharmig, the UK organisation for pharmaceutical microbiology professionals, got to grips with future regulatory challenges and technical issues. One of the speakers, Dr Tim Sandle, provides highlights from the event
The ins and outs of microbial monitoring– 4-Jan-2013
Routines for microbial monitoring of ambient air, surfaces and personnel in critical areas need to be as straightforward and fail-safe as possible to yield reliable results. Disposables, such as settle plates, contact plates and swabs, should thus be filled in cleanrooms that meet high microbiological standards. For testing irregular surfaces such as equipment recesses, nooks, crevices, tubing and filling needles, where contact plates are impractical, pre-moistened swabs may be used to validate cleaning and sanitation procedures and to verify that a required hygiene level has been reached.