Insights On Critical Environments

  1. Confessions Of A Microbiologist: What I Wish I Had Known For Our Facility Shutdown 11/17/2025

    Facility shutdowns often compromise contamination control strategies. Transitioning from manual cleaning to automated bio-decontamination ensures a more effective facility restart, eliminating persistent mold risks.

  2. How To Easily And Quickly Monitor Cleanrooms 5/6/2024

    Discover a portable particle counter for quick and easy cleanroom monitoring that features automated alarms and reporting to help you ensure compliance.

  3. Strategic Space Management 8/23/2024

    A pharmaceutical company facing storage space issues decided to outsource its reference samples to Q1 Scientific, a stability storage service provider, resulting in cost savings.

  4. Project Management: Sphere Of Influence 10/21/2024

    The project manager's sphere of influence extends beyond the project team, encompassing the organization, industry, and professional discipline.

  5. Optimizing Monitoring: The Science Of Particle Loss 11/26/2025

    Explore how tubing configuration impacts particle recovery and compliance under Annex 1, using evidence-based guidance, risk assessment tools, and practical strategies to strengthen contamination control.

  6. Can Your Facility Cleaning, Environmental Monitoring, And Disinfection Process Pass Regulatory Scrutiny? 7/25/2025

    Explore facility cleaning, monitoring, and disinfection strategies to meet regulatory standards, emphasizing planning, stakeholder involvement, testing, trending, documentation, and continuous improvement.

     

  7. What Is OPC Counting Efficiency? 6/24/2025

    Ensure cleanroom air quality with optical particle counters. Explore how OPCs work, their performance metrics, and key considerations for choosing the right one.

  8. How To Prove A Sterility Assurance Level Of 10⁻⁶ 2/13/2024

    Explore the Biological Indicator/Bioburden (BI/BB) method for achieving sterilization of products along with the prerequisite studies needed to develop the sterilization process.

  9. Raise Your Standards With Downflow Booth Airflow Containment 1/30/2026

    Ensure personnel safety during hazardous material handling by mastering airflow dynamics and containment screens. Learn to achieve low exposure levels through advanced HEPA filtration methods.

  10. Mold In Cleanrooms: A Persistent Threat And The Case For Proactive Bio-Decontamination 11/17/2025

    Learn how a comprehensive investigation and systems-level bio-decontamination strategy successfully eliminated persistent mold contamination in a vaccine manufacturing facility's high-risk area.