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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...

Quality & Compliance Cleaning Validation

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...

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