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Nanotech Safety
By David W. Hobson
Nanotechnology is a rich, highly diversified, and promising technology platform that already is demonstrating amazing potential for the development of advanced technologies and products in many business sectors. Accompanying the recognition of these new opportunities are concerns that emerging nanotechnologies are not yet defined with respect to potential environmental safety and health impacts.
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CLEANROOM TIP OF THE WEEK

Environmental Monitoring of Particle Counts is Easy
 The manufacture of pharmaceutical and biotechnology products requires that the appropriate level of quality be designed and constructed into the facility and systems that support the production process. Given that the FDA’s compliance focus, as a result of 483 observations and warning letters, is on “inadequate facility design” and “environmental and personnel monitoring,” one can only conclude that the skill level, training, and attitude of the personnel involved were inadequate in the cases cited with respect to the obvious requirement to minimize particulate, microbial, and pyrogen contamination.
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MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE WEEK

5 Ways to Speed Through Bureaucracy at Work
We all have been through it at work. Some process or change you are driving requires a sign-off from what seems like every manager in your company. Even when your work is done, you have to chase people down (most often managers), process their feedback, and get them to click a button or sign on the line. Sometimes these processes just take time. People should talk things over and consider alternative options, but there are ways to speed up the cycle.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
  • Integrated Containment Systems Certified as a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise
    Integrated Containment Systems received certification as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise from the Office of Supplier and Workforce Diversity of the State of Missouri.
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  • Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties
    Published in this week’s issue of Science, their work adds new detail to help explain the unusual physical phenomena and properties associated with graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arrayed in a repeating, honeycomb-like arrangement.
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  • Discovery of Non-Blinking Semiconductor Nanocrystals Advances Their Applications
    This discovery recently announced by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), University of Rochester, Cornell University, and Eastman Kodak Company is an important step to the use of the nanocrystals in various practical devices ranging from low-threshold lasers to the solar cells and biological imaging and tracking.
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  • New Nanocrystals Show Potential for Cheap Lasers, New Lighting
    For more than a decade, scientists have been frustrated in their attempts to create continuously emitting light sources from individual molecules because of an optical quirk called "blinking.”
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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

July 16-17, 2009
Overview of FDA Regulatory Compliance for Medical Devices
Costa Mesa, CA

July 19-23, 2009
SEMICON West
San Francisco, CA

August 24-26, 2009
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and Drug Product Specification
Costa Mesa, CA

Aug 30 - Sept 4, 2009
EOS/ESD Symposium
Anaheim, CA

September 2-4, 2009
Technical Writing for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biotech Industries
Costa Mesa, CA

September 9-11, 2009
SEMICON Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan

September 10-11, 2009
Medical Devices: EU Directives, Guidance, CE Marking and ISO Standard Certifications
Malvern, PA

September 14, 2009
PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference
Washington, DC

September 14-15, 2009
Labeling and Labeling Controls in the Medical Devices Industry
Costa Mesa, CA

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