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About the Meeting

Environmental monitoring is a programme which evaluates the cleanliness of the manufacturing environment; the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection programmes and the operational performance of environmental controls. As such, pharmaceutical manufacturers of both sterile and non-sterile products, and medical devices, are required to demonstrate that manufacturing processes and procedures minimise any potential contamination to the product from the manufacturing environment.

This workshop will review the requirements for an environmental monitoring program including a review of contamination sources, an overview of data management and a consideration of associated aspects of environmental monitoring including method validation and out-of-limits events.

Attend and you will also receive a copy of Pharmig’s latest publication:

Pharmig Reviews No: 1 Current Perspectives on Environmental Monitoring which has been edited by Tim Sandle

 The aim of this booklet is to survey some of the current practices, trends and approaches to environmental monitoring and present these as technical articles in a way which will be of interest to those with some experience with pharmaceutical microbiology. In doing so note of the current interest in risk assessment is accounted for and several chapters directly or indirectly describe how risk assessment is an advantage for environmental monitoring, using practical examples. Risk assessment can, for example, help with the selection of sample sites or with working how often to monitor; it is also useful in problem solving.