Pharmaceutical manufacturers engaged in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, home and personal care, and other related manufacturing industries need to be meticulous in creating and ...

There is no doubt that these occurrences of microbial contamination are a failure of one or more elements of contamination control. Perhaps it was an inadvertent ...

A two-year series of 539 evaluations of the aseptic technique of pharmacists and technicians conducted with sterile growth medium and designed to simulate the compounding of USP medium-risk-level ...

Advancing microbiology QC in biomanufacturing requires new technologies, strong cross-functional practices, and collaboration ...

Researchers and therapeutic manufacturers have long relied on classical microbiological methods to check their samples and surfaces for microbial contamination, primarily using lengthy ...

One of the main goals of pharmaceutical regulatory rules is to keep environmental contamination at a minimum. According to the EU GMP Annex 1 regulatory standard for sterile drug products, a ...

A study published in Frontiers explores the microbial diversity within hospital sink drains across multiple wards over a year-long period, focusing on bacterial communities, species identification, ...

Bacterial contamination of blood for transfusions poses a serious risk to patients, particularly in resource-limited settings. 1 Blood centers in high-income nations use heat-sealed tubing to close ...

While Listeria remains a consistent threat in the ready-to-eat (RTE) space, experience and recall data indicate that upgraded ...

Chicken and ground turkey showed the highest contamination rates for Salmonella and Campylobacter—the two bacteria most commonly associated with foodborne illness. Nearly 1 in 4 bacterial isolates ...