03/01/2005 EL CAJON, Calif.-PURE Bioscience (www.pure-bioscience.com) has begun conversion of part of its manufacturing space here to a dedicated, FDA-compliant, cGMP facility for production of pharmaceutical-grade silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC).
03/01/2005 The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) is responsible for the origination, publishing, and revision of approximately 35 Recommended Practices (RPs) in topics of interest and value to the contamination control industry.
03/01/2005 Cleanroom technology developed for traditional applications such as aseptic filling in pharmaceutical plants is increasingly being applied to distinctly 21st Century problems.
03/01/2005 A lot can happen in ten years. Certainly 2005 seemed a long way off when I wrote the editorial for the December 1994 special forecast issue of CleanRooms.
03/01/2005 Pharmaceutical manufacturing environments have traditionally seen particle counting as a necessary evil to demonstrate compliance with a cleanroom standard.
03/01/2005 Take a tour of manufacturing in the world today and you will encounter widely varying levels of sophistication across a broad spectrum of industries.
03/01/2005 During last fall’s much-publicized case of flu vaccine contamination at Chiron Corp.’s Liverpool, U.K., manufacturing facility, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (FDA CBER; www.fda.gov) issued a warning letter to the company that summarized numerous deviations from current good manufacturing practices (cGMP)-including several aseptic processing sterilization failures.
03/01/2005 In the thermal management of microelectronics, the interface material layer between a chip and heat spreader presents the single largest barrier to heat flow in the packaging of high-power dissipation devices.
03/01/2005 Having been involved in the iNEMI roadmaps, recent workshops organized by the NNI, SRC and NSF, and discussions with semiconductor and packaging folk, it’s apparent that the semiconductor folks have figured out what’s going to happen in the next 10 years.
