09/01/2003 The IEST, the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, has released RP-CC003.3, Garment System Considerations for Cleanrooms and Other Controlled Environments, and is seeking comment on several other topics that were developed by the Contamination Control Division during ESTECH 2003 in May.
09/01/2003 The tiny line of gold fingers of a new microfluidic device are the piano keys that when tickled allow this new lab-on-chip to sing songs of particle analysis to the tunes of contamination control, drug discovery, homeland defense and lab chromatography.
09/01/2003 Filters are omnipotent in the practice of contamination control. We filter many things—cleanroom air, ultrapure water, process chemicals and high-purity gasses. We install filters at the outlets of our vacuum cleaners and we filter our process effluents.
09/01/2003 China will pare down its tariffs on a host of nonwoven roll goods from rates as high as 23 percent to 10 percent by 2005, but the world's most populous nation says it is not prepared to make additional cuts to industrial and agriculture levies.
09/01/2003 Although a re-processor of single-use medical devices has agreed to halt production, the president of the Lubbock, Texas-based company says the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) claim that Adven Medical Inc. failed to properly validate cleaning, disinfecting and sterilization processes is "false and inflammatory."
09/01/2003 Everyone is feeling the weight of extra duties and it's fairly easy to understand why industry associations need to push harder than ever to elicit critical participation from membership at conferences, shows or board meetings.
09/01/2003 For the past several years, heightened awareness of the effects of pollution, resource consumption and the interaction of the built and natural environments has inspired public- and private-sector organizations to adopt "green" or sustainable design criteria for many types of new and existing buildings.
09/01/2003 The Food and Drug Administration's right hand doesn't know what the left is doing, and despite the validity, the bureaucracy-mired agency recoils when questions abound.
09/01/2003 Last month's column touted computational modeling as a useful tool for predicting airflow patterns in a cleanroom. The complex geometries and boundary conditions of a real cleanroom, however, render this approach impractical.
09/01/2003 It's a given that in today's healthcare climate, virtually any conversation about specific areas of operation begins—and often ends—with a discussion about money. Hospitals, especially, are under the gun. Some patients are rushed home to avoid the higher costs of a hospital stay, while others who do arrive for extended stays are arriving sicker than in years past.
09/01/2003 Since its enforcement, starting in 1997, Title 21 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 11 has had a resounding impact in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
09/01/2003 A contract manufacturer of dietary supplements says implementing the same current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs) required for pharmaceutical aseptic processing will be a "seamless transition" once the proposal is mandated by the Food and Drug Administration.
09/01/2003 A unique Tax Increment Financing (TIF) package that would provide more than $7 million to construct a $12 million dollar office and production facility here was enough to get biotech start-up Cytovance Biologics to locate its company in the Presbyterian Health Foundation Research Park starting in 2005.
09/01/2003 With two new fabs breaking ground last quarter and eight fab projects currently underway in China, the stage is clearly set for CleanRooms China 2003 conference and exhibition to be held at the Shanghai International Convention Center on December 12-13—the second installment in this growing, annual event.
09/01/2003 Despite hard times in the chip and microelectronics industries, a report from a firm that tracks wafer manufacturing says there are more than twice as many fabs under construction this year than in all of 2002.
09/01/2003 Ball shear strength alone does not guarantee a reliable package. By design, ball grid array (BGA) and chip scale package (CSP) device families have to overcome repeat temperature extremes and environmental conditions.
