Best Practices in Environmental Monitoring

23rd May - Portmarnock, Dublin

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Best Practices in Environmental Monitoring 23rd May – Portmarnock, Dublin

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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING DRAFT OUTLINE AGENDA – THURSDAY 23rd May 2024

AGENDA

09.30 – 09.40Chairs Welcome
Dr. Tim Sandle – Head of GxP Compliance, Sterility Assurance & Quality Risk Management, BPL and Pharmig Committee
09.40 – 10.20Back to basics: What the environmental monitoring programme needs to contain
Marsha Steed – Founder & President, Steed MicroBio LLC
10.20 – 11.00EM and what Annex 1 requires
Patrick Nieuwenhuizen – Director, Principal Consultant, Pharmalex
11.00 – 11.30Mingle with the exhibitors over tea & coffee
11.30 – 12.10Knowing your microflora and understanding the sources of contamination in your environment
Edel Fitzmaurice – Quality Director, QP, Fitzmaurice Scientific Ltd
12.10 – 13.10Lunch
13.10 – 13.50What to do with environmental monitoring data? (standard slot time, ~40 minutes)

  • Why trend analysis is important?
  • How to summarise data
  • How to deal with microbial counts and data trending
  • How to deal with contamination frequencies and data trending
  • How to profile microbial contamination and look for patterns
  • How to summarise the status of different areas
  • What does a good report look like?

Monica Di Matta – Quality Risk Manager, BPL &
Joanna Wolodkowicz – Contamination Control Manager, BPL

13.50 – 14.00Case studies in EM – how to run effective investigations
Dr. Tim Sandle – Head of GxP Compliance, Sterility Assurance & Quality Risk Management, BPL
14.00 – 14.20Afternoon tea & coffee with the exhibitors
14.20 – 15.20Risk based approach to setting environmental monitoring locations (50/60mins)

  • Introduction to risk-based approaches.
  • Assessing contamination sources and sample types.
  • Importance of selecting meaningful locations.
  • The effective use of HACCP methodology.
  • Group exercise:
    • Analysing a pharmaceutical process area to select appropriate environmental monitoring locations by understanding product and people flows

Monica Di Matta – Quality Risk Manager, BPL &
Joanna Wolodkowicz – Contamination Control Manager, BPL

15.20 – 16.20Contamination control strategy panel discussion – how to use environmental monitoring to manage contamination risks (60 mins)
Tim Sandle, Edel Fitzmaurice, Patrick Nieuwenhuizen, Monica Di Matta, Joanna Wolodkowi, Marsha Steed
16.20 – 16.30Closing remarks and end of meeting

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