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A widely used water purification sterilant has been granted expanded Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval, from liquid form to fogging, providing new and more effective means to quell contamination in critical biotech and pharmaceutical processes.

Process automation systems designer Key Technology (www.key.net) is joining forces with package inspection systems provider Peco Controls Corp. (Fremont, Calif.; www.peco.com) to form InspX, a new company that seeks to strengthen contamination control in the packaging lines of food and drug processing plants.

Working jointly with Coastal Carolina University to identify drainage areas here with significant bacteria counts following storm events, Integrated Environmental Technologies Ltd. (IET; www.ietltd.net) is proposing its EcaFlo technology as a solution to quickly killing fecal coliform bacteria.

When it comes to manufacturing, the philosophy at Matrix Semiconductor Inc. (www.matrixsemi.com) is there's nothing new in the process.

Designed as the primary filtration system on the latest generation of 193-nanometer (nm) step-and-scan lithography tools Extraction's ex2600 features the company's proprietary hybrid chemical filter media in a smaller footprint.

Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc. (CBI; www.cbi-biotech.com), known for its research and development in biodefense and bioterrorism technology...

Analytical Services Group (ASG), a laboratory recognized for solving microcontamination issues and characterizing unknown materials, has been acquired by Air Liquide America (www.airliquide.com) and relocated within the new cleanroom facility at its Balazs Analytical Services lab here.

Following a recent study on prevention of pathogens in healthcare facility water systems, Janet Stout, Ph.D., director of special pathogens laboratory at the Veterans Administration (VA) Healthcare System, is urging hospitals to consider point-of-use filtration to eliminate waterborne infections such as Legionella.

The use of chemical treatments, most notably chlorine, as well as filtration and other techniques clean up water and remove potentially harmful pathogens and other contaminants.

For the second time this summer, a major advance has been unveiled in the battle against infectious prions associated with Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).

Frequently, when I tell people that I work for a magazine called CleanRooms, the reaction is a curious stare.

A quality design/build firm uses close communication and a variety of resources to make sure the finished product is not a surprise

Even the most excellent compounding room design cannot compensate for the one factor that has the greatest impact on a controlled environment—the human factor.

To be ultimately profitable, pharmaceutical R&D and biopharmaceutical facilities design must incorporate detailed expense analysis

As technologies shrink, even low-voltage static events can cause contamination