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Considerations for contact plate recovery in cleanrooms
The study provides greater insight into some of the key factors that affect microbiological surface contamination in cleanrooms.
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MHRA Class 2 medicine recalls – May/June 2025
The UK medicine agency's most recent recalls of this class have been due to packaging and potential contamination issues.
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Investing in the future of pharmaceutical microbiology QC
Troy Wright, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Quality at Abzena, shares an overview of current major challenges within pharmaceutical microbiology quality control, including the lack of staff knowledge in advanced technologies and how the sector’s importance can be overlooked, despite its key role in bringing safe, quality products…
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MAS-100 Libra®: the future of continuous cleanroom monitoring
Microbiological monitoring is essential for pharmaceutical facilities. As regulatory standards tighten, especially in cleanroom classes A and B, the need for reliable, continuous monitoring has grown. The MAS-100 Libra meets these demands by combining traditional settle plate methods with advanced automation, improving efficiency and accuracy.
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Environmental Monitoring In-Depth Focus 2024
This in-depth focus features articles on environmental monitoring trends such as digitalised management of EM data, as well as endotoxin detection.
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Guide to Outsourcing 2024
In this Guide to Outsourcing article, Jessica Rayser, Associate Director Product Management, Accugenix®, explores how outsourcing microbial identification can benefit technicians and facilitate the most accurate identification possible.
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Drug combination shows promise for mitigating microbial biofilms
Combining allicin with domiphen could reduce biofilm formation, providing a potential avenue for overcoming antimicrobial resistance, research suggests.
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Digitalisation propelling automated microbiology market growth to 2033
Increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in microbiology is set to be a key driver of the global automated microbiology market to 2033, research asserts.
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PharmaLab Congress 2024 – what’s new for the third year in Düsseldorf/Neuss
Find out what is on offer for pharma professionals working in analytical development and microbiology QC at the 12th PharmaLab Congress being held in Germany in 2024.
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Microbial contamination detection with rapid spectroscopy
The detection method was designed for continuous culture monitoring of cell therapy products and required minimal sample preparation, research showed.
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Semi-automatic method could provide “superior” bacterial characterisation analysis
The analysis technique offers “significant” advantages over traditional colony forming unit (CFU) counts, according to the paper.
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Alternative methods for mycobacterial testing in biological products
Considering the limited available information on implementing mycobacterial testing for quality control of biologicals, researchers have highlighted a suitable potential alternative detection method.
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Rapid method for whole-genome fungal ID
The novel technique for whole-genome analysis of fungal species is “highly suitable” for quality and safety monitoring of medicinal materials, the paper suggests.
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Guide to Testing 2024
In this Guide to Testing articles explore limit of detection requirements for microbial testing of short-shelf-life products and sustainable endotoxin testing.
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Microbe-carrying particle recovery efficacy with manual surface sampling
Three different contact plate methods were tested to determine a convenient manual surface sampling technique for microbial contamination recovery, the paper explained.
