There is no doubt that these occurrences of microbial contamination are a failure of one or more elements of contamination control. Perhaps it was an inadvertent ...

A two-year series of 539 evaluations of the aseptic technique of pharmacists and technicians conducted with sterile growth medium and designed to simulate the compounding of USP medium-risk-level ...

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

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

A comprehensive contamination control strategy must include a dedicated section addressing personnel-related microbiological and particulate contamination risks introduced into an aseptic process, as ...

A study published in Frontiers explores the microbial diversity within hospital sink drains across multiple wards over a year-long period, focusing on bacterial communities, species identification, ...

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 ...

Chicken and ground turkey showed the highest contamination rates for Salmonella and Campylobacter—the two bacteria most commonly associated with foodborne illness. Nearly 1 in 4 bacterial isolates ...