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…

How to get QA buy-in to clean room turn down
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How to get QA buy-in to clean room turn down

Clean room turn down is a growing discussion in the Pharma industry and is usually reflected in corporate policy; if you google ‘sustainability’ and a top ten pharma company name, you’ll find taglines like GSK’s “Our Planet – Our Responsibility”. Sixty-five of the top 100 listed companies in Australia are reporting their sustainability credentials in…

Clean Room Designers
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Clean Room Designers

PharmOut is a multi-disciplinary team of expert pharmaceutical architects and engineers, we are Australia’s leading pharmaceutical clean room designers, working for cosmetics manufacturers, non sterile and sterile pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world to provide Architecture and Engineering services. Manufacturers, often set a challenge for PharmOut’s process engineers to scale up or replicate processes. PharmOuts standard…

Cleanroom design – simple solutions to complex problems
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Cleanroom design – simple solutions to complex problems

I want an innovative cleanroom design, the use of the word “innovation” is perhaps the most overused ‘buzz’ word in the design and documentation of health sciences facilities, the intent is certainly not over-used, in the sense of the recognition of the increasingly evident acceptance and embrace of concepts driven as simple solutions to complex…

Clean Room Design Checklist
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Clean Room Design Checklist

This quick clean room design checklist is part of a number of free suggestions, tools or tips put together by our (frustrated) staff to try circumvent a poor clean room design. 1. Stakeholder consultations Has everyone who has a stake in the clean room been consulted? This includes: Maintenance – ask them what will need…