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Cleanroom Cleaning and Disinfection
Cleanrooms in healthcare and pharmaceutical facilities must be kept in a state of microbiological control. This article outlines eight key steps for keeping a cleanroom clean.
Basic clean room requirements
A clean room, in my mind are a combination of engineering design, fabrication, finish and operational controls (control strategy) that are required to convert a “normal” room to a “clean room”. In this blog I will attempt to explain the necessary characteristics of a regulated company clean room not producing potent chemicals or active or hazardous biologicals. If there are significant containment requirements, the requirements would be outside the scope of a “simplistic” blog like this. In a pharmaceutical sense, clean rooms are those rooms that meet the code of GMP requirements as defined in the sterile code of GMP, i.e. Annex 1 of both the EU and PIC/S Guides to GMP and other standards and guidance as required by local health authorities.
Cleanroom Industry Standards
Cleanrooms are essential to any manufacturing process where particulate contamination can affect the quality of goods produced. Cleanrooms provide secure environments with controlled air filtration, lowering the possibility of product contamination or large particulate interference with critical process manufacturing. Cleanrooms are used in industries such as medical device manufacturing, food processing, computer manufacturing and server holding, military and aerospace research and life sciences as well as thousands of other potential applications.
Principles of Cleanroom Validation
A cleanroom is a modular environment in which the following environmental factors are kept under control; temperature, airborne particulates, microbes, relative humidity, differential pressure, and air flow.
What are Cleanroom classifications
A question commonly asked is "What is a clean room?" Generally speaking a "clean room" is an enclosed room that has equipment which controls the amount of particulate matter in the air by using air pressure and filters. To meet requirements of a "clean room" as defined by Federal Standard 209E and newer ISO Standards, all clean rooms must not exceed a particulate count as specified in the air cleanliness class.
Cleanroom standards
It is some years since the ISO 14644 and 14698 series of international cleanroom standards started taking over from national standards. Early parts are already undergoing their statutory five-year reviews; other parts have only recently been published and new parts are still being written.
