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Troy Wright, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Quality at Abzena, shares an overview of current major challenges within pharmaceutical microbiology quality control, including the lack of staff knowledge in advanced technologies and how the sector’s importance can be overlooked, despite its key role in bringing safe, quality products…
Microbiological monitoring is essential for pharmaceutical facilities. As regulatory standards tighten, especially in cleanroom classes A and B, the need for reliable, continuous monitoring has grown. The MAS-100 Libra meets these demands by combining traditional settle plate methods with advanced automation, improving efficiency and accuracy.
This in-depth focus features articles on environmental monitoring trends such as digitalised management of EM data, as well as endotoxin detection.
In this Guide to Outsourcing article, Jessica Rayser, Associate Director Product Management, Accugenix®, explores how outsourcing microbial identification can benefit technicians and facilitate the most accurate identification possible.
Combining allicin with domiphen could reduce biofilm formation, providing a potential avenue for overcoming antimicrobial resistance, research suggests.
Increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in microbiology is set to be a key driver of the global automated microbiology market to 2033, research asserts.
Find out what is on offer for pharma professionals working in analytical development and microbiology QC at the 12th PharmaLab Congress being held in Germany in 2024.
The detection method was designed for continuous culture monitoring of cell therapy products and required minimal sample preparation, research showed.
The analysis technique offers “significant” advantages over traditional colony forming unit (CFU) counts, according to the paper.
Considering the limited available information on implementing mycobacterial testing for quality control of biologicals, researchers have highlighted a suitable potential alternative detection method.
The novel technique for whole-genome analysis of fungal species is “highly suitable” for quality and safety monitoring of medicinal materials, the paper suggests.
In this Guide to Testing articles explore limit of detection requirements for microbial testing of short-shelf-life products and sustainable endotoxin testing.
Three different contact plate methods were tested to determine a convenient manual surface sampling technique for microbial contamination recovery, the paper explained.
The type of clothing worn in aseptic manufacturing areas may impact the number of particle and airborne bacteria detected in biosafety cabinets.
Employing an automated, alternative microbiological method (AMM) means water activity could be used as a microbial indicator for bioburden assessment in tablets and capsules, a study suggests.
