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Table of Contents Solid State Technology Year 2002 Issue 6	NEWS Particles.html Particles... With the opening of its newest facility in Shanghai, Agilent Technologies Inc. hopes to aid China in becoming an international leader in research and development (R&D) facilities Cintas Truck Stolen Garm Cintas truck stolen, garments gone The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes that a delivery truck heisted from cleanroom garment service provider Cintas Corp. and robbed of airport uniforms was not the work of terrorists Novartis To Build New Re Novartis to build new research facility in Bay State BASEL, SWITZERLAND-When it is all said and done, Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) will have dedicated a significant amount of cleanroom space to the 255,000-square-foot global research center it is fashioning from a building in Cambridge, MA Summer 2002 Cleanrooms W Summer 2002: CleanRooms will host its annual shows in Europe, Asia and launch CleanRooms China Frankfurt, Singapore & Shang hai-CleanRooms magazine is kicking off its summer events in Frankfurt, Germany with Clean Rooms Europe (June 18-21, 2002) Drug Makers Back In Fda Drug makers back in FDA hot water ROCKVILLE, MD-For the second time in the span of just over a year, two drug makers, the Schering-Plough Corp. and Abbott Laboratories, are in trouble with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for numerous and repeated instances of substandard manufacturing Pall Buys Five Usfilter Pall buys five USFilter businesses for $360 million East Hills, NY-Pall Corp. has acquired the Filtration and Separations Group of USFilter Corp.(San Diego, CA) in a $360 million deal that officials from both companies say will allow each to broaden products and services in target core markets Swedens Burgeoning Biote Sweden's burgeoning biotech boom Although it lacks cleanroom manufacturing capacity, the country has all the tools to be a potential global leader

DEPARTMENTS Letters It's about time we learn from one another I read Chris Anderson's article regarding the Medical Device industry becoming more contamination-vigilant, and felt I needed to respond. Unfiltered New food production users can certainly learn from the biological safety paradigm My introduction into the world of cleanrooms was through the science of biological safety, where the emphasis is on protecting people. The biological safety paradigm is: keep organisms from getting out; contain the ones that have gotten out and minimize the movement of those that were not contained. Viewpoint A unified contamination control community I've fielded a number of calls this past month from readers who have noticed how we've opened up our coverage to all things relevant to the contamination control continuum Viewpoint Calling all parties to the table The front page of the May 2001 issue of CleanRooms featured a story about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began cracking down on shoddy pharmaceutical manufacturing, handing down the stiffest fines in history. Inventors Corner Inventor's Corner The method and apparatus counts and measures contamination in air, gas and liquids. It includes a remote sensor (A), a wireless data processing and control system (B), a microprocessor (C) and a wireless communication means (D)

FEATURES Cleanroom Fire Safety En Cleanroom fire safety enters new era Insurance standards now call for tools to be fabricated from new fire-resistant materials. A panel of materials experts considers new challenges facing fab owners and tool makers Built To Spec Six weeks flat Chip filtration and separation firm coverts ISO Class 6 cleanroom to ISO Class 5 in tight timeframe Special Report Food safety in the age of terrorism Food processors assess the security of products and processes post-September 11 Reducing Water Usage In Reducing water usage in semiconductor manufacturing Approval for plant expansion often comes with the stipulation that water demand from the regional supply remains unchanged Arriving At An Approxima Arriving at an approximate cost This article is the third in a series of Design & Construction columns.

COLUMNS Life Sciences Pharmacy management facing pressures to improve, update sterile facilities Hospital environments have been identified as a major source of secondary infections

PRODUCTS New Products New Products The sGo software for Palm OS enables users to take real-time readings and download the company's Spectrum data loggers using a Palm handheld Product Spotlight Getting a handle on gloves Putting a finger on the right cleanroom glove for a specific application can be a handful for even the savviest of contamination control professionals

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