Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
August 17, 2016
cGMP for Phase 1 Investigational Drugs: Sterile Parenteral Drug Product Manufacturing
As Phase I clinical trials mark the first time that an investigational new drug is administered to humans, these studies are subject to appropriate current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
January 28, 2015
Why Are My Swab Recoveries So Low?
Cleaning Validation and GMP reviews of those protocols are challenging. They become even more challenging at a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) where compliance assessments to in-house...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
August 7, 2014
Are you moaning about cleaning?
From time to time in this industry, you will hear someone bemoaning the fact that they have to do a cleaning validation. If this happens to be you, have no fear and remember the following five points...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
June 11, 2014
The Cost of Inadequately Scheduling Cleaning Validation
Ever wonder why some—most—projects don’t go as planned? Let me take a chance at explaining what I have observed in the last few decades. Firstly, let us assume that you have contracted a well-known...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
March 27, 2014
Cleaning Disaster or True Worst Case?
How robust are your cleaning validation measures? Could your storage procedures withstand the impacts of a fire within your facility, or would such a disaster set back your production time...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
August 8, 2013
Personalized Medicine – How Will the Batch Size Change Our Lives?
Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a new scientific break-through in science and medicine that promises safer, more efficacious and personalized medicine. Where are all these...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
June 13, 2013
Visual Inspection for Cleanliness, What Are We Missing?
As a way to verify that your cleaning or cleaning-in-place (CIP) process was successful, what tool, assay or method should you use first? Well, shouldn’t the answer be as plain as the eyes on your...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
May 21, 2013
Critical Process Parameters and Critical Quality Attributes: Why Does the Selection Process Take so Long?
Quick, can you name the top 10 Critical Process Parameters (CPPs) and Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs) of your bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing process? Well if you hesitated don’t feel bad. Most...
Cleaning Validation
Life Science Consulting
April 22, 2013
A Biotech Cleaning Validation Worst-Case Soil Selection
When conducting cleaning validation studies at large biologics or biotechnology facilities or perhaps even conducting a small cleaning validation study on a non-dedicated piece of equipment in the...