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 ...

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

Fresh fruits and vegetables rank among the most nutritious components of the human diet but present inherent challenges for food safety due to their consumption in raw or minimally processed form. A ...

Aseptic gowning procedures play an important role in supporting contamination control strategies across pharmaceutical and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Results of a French surveillance operation have been published, revealing the rate of contamination in fresh poultry meat at retail. In France, Salmonella and Campylobacter are the two main bacterial ...

Results of the study determined that terrestrial biota had rapidly colonized the extraterrestrial material, even under strict contamination control. Researchers recommend enhanced contamination ...