Basic Clean Room Requirements | Designs for GMP Clean Rooms
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Basic Clean Room Requirements | Designs for GMP Clean Rooms

What is a clean room? A cleanroom (GMP cleanroom), in my mind, is a combination of engineering design, fabrication, finish and operational controls (control strategy) that are required to convert a “normal” room to a “clean room”. This blog will attempt to explain the necessary characteristics of a regulated company clean room not producing potent…

Cleanroom Monitoring According to Annex 1
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Cleanroom Monitoring According to Annex 1

Introduction For anyone involved in the manufacturing of sterile medicinal products, the recent PIC/S GMP version 17 Annex 1 guidelines are nothing short of a bible. They delineate the rigorous standards necessary to maintain product sterility. One such crucial aspect outlined in these guidelines is cleanroom monitoring. In this blog, we aim to elucidate the…

Vapour-phase Hydrogen Peroxide Systems
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Vapour-phase Hydrogen Peroxide Systems

Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour (HPV) or Vapour-phase Hydrogen Peroxide Systems (VHP) as it’s more commonly known, has been used for many years as a contactless method of decontaminating cleanrooms and hospitals. It has also seen use most recently in indoor public spaces of known virus or bacteria contaminated sites such as the recent outbreaks of Covid-19…

Cross Contamination – Modern Engineering Solutions to the Challenge
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Cross Contamination – Modern Engineering Solutions to the Challenge

The first references to the term “dedicated facility” appeared in GMP literature in the early 2010s in response to potential cross contamination risks of manufacturing toxicologically sensitive products in shared facilities. The WHO Technical Report Series, No. 957, 2010 ‘Annex 3 WHO good manufacturing practices for pharmaceutical products containing hazardous substances’ specifies that “production of…

Quality Cannabis Production | Workflow in Medicinal Cannabis Production
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Quality Cannabis Production | Workflow in Medicinal Cannabis Production

Well-designed cannabis production workflows can help business owners understand the benefits of efficient and secure operating procedures in Medicinal Cannabis cultivation and production/manufacturing. When it comes to the production of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis products and extractions (medicinal marijuana products), errors are extremely costly. A mistake can lead to crop damage, excess waste, higher cultivation and production…