In the healthcare industry, even minor contamination of intravenous (IV) medications can lead to disastrous consequences, including severe infections and prolonged hospital stays. Since the contamination of compounded medications poses such a big risk to the safety of patients, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) has...
In many industries, controlled environments are important to both improving the safety and quality of products. Both white rooms and cleanrooms are types of controlled environments fit for this purpose; however, each is used under slightly different circumstances. Understanding the subtle differences between a white...
Cleanrooms, and especially ISO 4 cleanrooms, have a lot of complex requirements that can seem difficult at first for a non-technical audience. Fundamentally, though, cleanroom requirements are all about managing airborne particles. The main difference between each ISO classification (from ISO Class 1 to ISO...
Cleanroom certification is a process that verifies whether a cleanroom meets proper standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or other benchmarks, and is done mainly through testing. Some testing procedures are required for all cleanrooms, and others are only required in certain...