CleanRooms articles from April 2003

CleanRooms archives from April 2003

CleanRooms signs deal to co-locate show with PDA. (CleanZone).(pharmaceuticals)
April 1, 2003... NASHUA, N.H.--Life sciences and cleanroom professionals can now attend a forum that for the first time brings drug manufacturing and contamination control technology under one roof, thanks to a multi-year contract the CleanRooms Group of...

A make-or-break cleanroom: a 50-year-old injection molding firm tightens up to ISO Class 7 to land burgeoning automative business.(Tricon unveils automotive clean room)
April 1, 2003... LISLE, Ill.--Tricon Industries Inc. isn't a company with a long history of cleanroom manufacturing. As a matter of fact, the more than 50-year-old firm has never had such a relatively contamination-free manufacturing location--until now. ...

FDA proposes cGMPs for dietary supplements.(aseptic processing regulations)
April 1, 2003... ROCKVILLE, Md.--Amid a revamp of pharmaceutical aseptic processing regulations for human and veterinary medicines, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed current good manufacturing practices for dietary supplements--like St. John's...

Lab-on-a-chip takes aim at bettering beer, fine-tuning processes.(Siemens AG)
April 1, 2003... MUNICH--Microchips will never be a choice snack with a pint of ale, but the combination could make "bitter beer face" an annoyance of the past and environmental monitoring even more acute if a Siemens AG microfluidic system--a...

A united voice rises out of the din. (Viewpoint).(clean rooms conferences)
April 1, 2003... For the first time at a CleanRooms East conference, we decided to devote a single hour to an open forum that would include the full gamut of the cleanrooms community--vendors, distributors and end users. Since the last five years have seen...

IEST releases latest recommended practices. (News).(Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology)
April 1, 2003... ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.--The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) has released the latest versions of its contamination control standards as well as several updates to its Handbook on Clean room Practices. The latest...

CleanRooms Group launches CleanRooms Puerto Rico 2003. (News).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... NSSHUA NH--Contamination control professionals will now have a venue to make inroads in the booming Caribbean technology hub with the launch of CleanRooms Puerto Rico 2003. Geared toward professionals in life science, semiconductor and...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... The AC/H debate continues The article by Fitzpatrick and Goldstein ("Cleanroom airflow: Issues other than cleanliness often drive HVAC design," page 10, CleanRooms, March 2003) states that often it is the sensible heat load that controls...

Million for MicroTest. (Particles).(contract from DynPort Vaccine Co.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... AGAWAM, Mass.--MicroTest Laboratories (MTL) has received a $1.22 million contract to provide aseptic manufacturing support for the production of a series of recombinant vaccines against botulinum neurotoxins--one of the most poisonous natural...

White particles, no worries. (Particles).(in blood bags)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... ROCKVILLE, Md.--The Food and Drug Administration says white particles first detected last month in batches of blood throughout the soul beast pose no health or safety risk. "Findings to date indicate that the particles are composed of...

Daw determined. (Particles).(Daw Technologies Inc. bankruptcy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SALT LAKE CITY Utah--Daw Technologies Inc., a cleanroom component designer and installer, has filed for Chapter 11, but its European subsidiary, Daw Technologies Ltd., will continue to operate normally outside of bankruptcy. "At this...

Two more for Neptune. (Particles).(Neptune Seafood buys equipment from BOC Group)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... MURRAY HILL, N.J.--Neptune Seafood is adding two more of The BOC Group's ozone pathogen intervention system to help control food-borne pathogens and extend product shelf life at Neptune's Los Angeles shrimp processing plant. To combat...

Thick skinned. (Particles).(LifeTek Inc. and DCI Donor Services licensing agreement with Clearant Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... LOS ANGELES, Calif.--Two major tissue recovery and processing organizations--LifeTek Inc. and DCI Donor Services--have finalized agreements with Clearant Inc. to license the company's patented pathogen inactivation process in order to begin...

Tears for humanity. (On the Beat).(stereotypes)
April 1, 2003... When the tears welled and trickled from her beautiful dark eyes, it was clear that she was ashamed. The CleanRooms East 2003 attendee did not contest a press release on an event that mimicked another CleanRooms conference and exhibition...

Clarification.(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2003... In the February 2003 Biotechnology/Life Sciences Supplement filtration feature by Holly Haughney, "Single-use filtration systems find permanence in biopharmaceutical applications" the photo on page S12 is credited to the wrong company. The...

Silicon's days are far from numbered. (Electronics).
April 1, 2003... Back in December, CleanRooms Chief Editor Mike Levans e-mailed me a report on stable organic polymers research presented at the 2002 Materials Research Conference (MRS) in Boston last fall. The lead-in for this report was something to the...

All standards are not created equal: read and implement with care. (Setting the Standard).
April 1, 2003... In several of our past columns, we've examined the details of specific cleanroom standards. This month, let's step back and take a look at the whole subject of standards and consider some of their strengths and weaknesses. The advantages...

When is a modular cleanroom right for you? (Product Spotlight: Modular Cleanrooms).
April 1, 2003... The growing need for flexibility is making modular cleanrooms increasingly popular for operations ranging from ISO Class 5 to ISO Class 3. For manufacturers, packagers and processors, there are three common reasons to go with a modular...

Out of thin air. (Special Report).(airborne molecular contamination)
April 1, 2003... Although contamination control professionals are waging a battle against AMC on many fronts, a look at three cleanroom trends reveals that new weapons are still needed in the fight to control a vicious, invisible foe. Across the myriad...

Modular cleanroom plenum. (Inventor's Corner).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The modular cleanroom plenum includes a rectangular plenum body (A) with an air barrier forming a top surface (B) and a ceiling grid forming a bottom surface (C). Plenums are attached to the primary support structure (D) of a cleanroom (E)...

UV disinfection device. (Inventor's Corner).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system can be used in healthcare, pharmaceutical or food processing environments to sterilize appliances, fluids and materials. The device includes a power supply (A), one UV light source (B) that is...

Overlooked protocol: proper mopping of walls and floors plays a critical role in your contamination control program. Learning the basics once is a lesson for life. (Surface Cleaning: Training Session).
April 1, 2003... Maintaining cleanroom walls and floors is critical for overall contamination control and for preserving cleanroom protocol. The cleaning of walls and floors is often overlooked because these surfaces are not immediately adjacent to manufactured...

CDC turns up the regulations: hospitals turn to open concept labs for flexibility and efficiency. (Unfiltered).(Center for Disease Control)
April 1, 2003... With the advent of the HIV epidemic and the rise of imported exotic microbes, a heightened awareness of the need for isolated testing laboratories within the general hospital laboratory has been firmly established. More recently, growing...