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Rationale for non-compliance with voluntary environmental control standards requires understanding ‘best practice’ recommendations by industry experts

Regardless of the industry that you work in, if you have any responsibility at all for contamination control at your organization, and you can possibly be in Stuttgart, Germany from March 11-13 next year, you need to plan to attend the 2008 CleanRooms Europe Conference & Exhibition.

Ultraviolet-C (UVC) technology for air purification has recently been endorsed or specified by numerous federal, state, and local government agencies such as the Government Services Administration (GSA), CDC, EPA, and FEMA, as well as industry organizations including the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Illumination Engineering Society of North America.

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST) has begun assessing the need for a Recommended Practice (RP) on liquid particle counting (LPC).

Silecs recently unveiled its new world-class materials manufacturing and R&D facility in Espoo, Finland.

compiled by Carrie Meadows

Two recent announcements serve to illustrate the point that radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is beginning to prove a useful and valuable technology in cleanroom applications and sensor-embedded pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment.

Selecting the right packaging solution for your product requires close collaboration with your package provider

Standard’s key objective is to give industry-wide flexibility regarding implementation

Lower the risk of biocontamination without compromising material integrity.

Compatibility between wiper materials and chemical disinfectants affects stability and concentration

New filtration media, technologies, and airflow design strategies are helping users of critical environments improve filtration efficiency and control costs in the face of tightening air-quality tolerances.

Half the battle in maintaining necessary cleanliness levels is reducing the amount of microorganisms and particulates that are tracked into the critical environment in the first place.