Rinse sample analysis or visual inspection are risk-based approaches that can be correlated to surface cleanliness to replace surface sampling in a biopharmaceutical equipment cleaning process.

After routine cleaning of metal or glass surfaces of pharmaceutical process tanks, residues may remain and appear as faint whitish or dark stains that cannot be easily wiped off. To clean the residue ...

This article presents a study of an aseptic environmental monitoring system for surface contamination at critical areas using a robot. Robotic sampling can be applied to the surface sampling of ...