Issue

An index of all 1999 CleanRooms articles listed aphabetically by subject

New Products for December

If your application requires a product that kills microorganisms, then you need a disinfectant or sporicidal agent that is registered with the EPA.

Inventor's Corner -- December

One of our oft-cited "emerging" application areas is the food processing industry. In fact, some people believe that, from a contamination control point of view, it's not emerging, but rather here already.

Letters to the editor

The level of training provided to cleaning personnel is the number one discriminant for anyone considering an outside service for cleanroom cleaning. Personnel training touches on just about every other aspect of concern, from risk assessment to liability issues to quality control to cost-effectiveness.

When Lucent staff began brainstorming to build what is now the Manufacturing Realization Center (MRC), they made several observations that resulted in a new approach to facility design.

Readers are beginning to respond to the question we posed in the October issue regarding why Class II BSCs have not lived up to expected levels of protection.

ECD is a generic term for a myriad of specialty clean space environments. ECD stands for enhanced clean device.

User demand for hassle-free, one-stop shopping has lured another supplier to test the e-commerce waters. eFiltration.com, a Chicago, IL-based company formed earlier this year to sell filters over the Internet.

A survey of CleanRooms'99 West attendees' expectations of Y2K?

Airborne molecular contamination requires a different set of solutions than particle contamination (the current number-one concern in semiconductor and disk drive cleanrooms) and it may prove a bigger obstacle in the short term.

A new trend is taking shape, and the general contractor is getting phased out of the picture, while the mechanical subcontractor is becoming the focal point.

Too many cleanroom standards could place the US at an economic disadvantage, says the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO/TC 209. To address their concern, the group sent a letter to the IEST last month requesting the standards body initiate the replacement of the Fed-Std-209. The letter also requested the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) elevate the international standard (ISO 14644-1) to a standard in the US.

A Technology used to sterilize medical products has made its way into the food processing business. Professionals in and close to the contamination control industry say an electric pasteurization method unveiled by Titan Corp. will offer great opportunities.

Failed ISO doc to be reconsidered. The first document of the Biocontamination Control set (14698) was voted down in July

End-users, standards bodies, and insurance companies who put their heads together several months ago to develop a worldwide-accepted fire-safety test are expected to present the fruit of their collaborative effort this month at the National Fire Protection Association's 318 Cleanrooms Committee meeting.