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Virtual Cleanroom Trains Students
By Greg Kline
When Tara Holt, a third-year Purdue University pharmacy student from Frankton, Ind., steps into a pharmacy clean room for the first time, she’s likely to experience a little déjà vu.
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PRODUCT FOCUS

Airborne Particle Counter

The APC ErgoTouch Pro has the functionality of a portable airborne particle counter in a handheld. It features a 3.7 inch color touch screen, records six channels of simultaneous data, has memory for 10,000 sample records, and provides security protection features such as user password locks and USO 14644.1 and EU GMP reporting.
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CLEANROOM TIP OF THE WEEK

Understanding Cleanroom Apparel Sterilization
 Sterilization is a process that is intended to destroy viable forms of microbial life including bacteria, molds, yeasts, viruses, protozoa, and algae (including bacterial spores) to an acceptable sterility assurance level (SAL). SALs were first used in the food canning industry and refer to the degree to which an item is expected to be non-sterile after exposure to a sterilization process. While we use phrases like “terminal sterilization,” we must remember that sterilization is a matter of degree or probability.
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MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE WEEK

Office Inflation: the Boss Who Gives Lots of Praise
Boss A is reserved, rarely gives praise, demands that people meet production and quality standards, has increasingly high expectations, and gets rid of people who cannot do the job.

Boss B is friendly, gives lots of praise, is flexible on production and vague on quality standards, has comfortable expectations, and rarely fires poor performers.

For whom would you rather work?
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INDUSTRY NEWS
  • DuPont Opens New Photovoltaic Technical Center in China
    DuPont has announced that it has opened a photovoltaic (PV) technical center at its China global R&D Center in Shanghai to support material developments for the fast growing crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar energy market.
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  • Team of Researchers Achieves Major Step Toward Faster Chips
    New research findings could lead to faster, smaller, and more versatile computer chips.
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  • New ISPE Tech Document Offers Pragmatic Solutions to Pharma Maintenance Issues
    ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 25,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has released its latest industry-impacting Good Practice Guide on Maintenance.
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  • New Service Permits Access To FlowCAM Instrumentation In Advance Of Purchase
    The new Particle Analysis Lab Testing Services enables process engineers, research scientists, and others involved in product development, manufacture, and quality assurance to gain access to the system's complete array of patented imaging and analysis capabilities as a contract service.
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Industry Calendar

May 20-22, 2009
SEMICON Singapore
Suntec, Singapore

May 26-27, 2009
Cleanroom Microbiology for the Non-Microbiologist
Berlin, Germany

June 2-4, 2009
SEMICON Russia
Moscow, Russia

June 8-10, 2009
European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit 2009
Düsseldorf, Germany

June 17-18, 2009
IEST Consumables and Garments Course
Burbank, CA

July 6-8, 2009
American Glovebox Society Annual Conference
San Diego, CA

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