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Laundry - SpeciaL report

Positive pressure is maintained in
the clean room.
“We use our own cleaning
consumables and manpower
for maintaining the clean room
environment”, revealed Cole.
“Nothing is outsourced; to maintain
standards, we do it all ourselves”.

Despatch

Garments in secondary packaging
are then placed in bags (tertiary bags)
that are ready for despatch through
delivery vehicles waiting at nearby
bays. The sterilisation of these sealed
garments is validated for a period of
one year. Folding and packaging

About time!
Why are clean room laundries set
to take off? Sample point 7.17 of
Volume 4 of EU Guidelines for
Good Manufacturing Practice for
Medicinal Products for Human and
Veterinary Use:
‘Reusable clean area clothing
should be cleaned in a laundry
facility adequately segregated
from production operations, using
a qualified process ensuring that
the clothing is not damaged and/or
contaminated by fibres or particles
during the repeated laundry process.
Laundry facilities used should not
introduce risk of contamination or
cross-contamination. The garment Sorting of laundered, sterilised garments
management processes should be
evaluated and determined as part of
the garment qualification programme
and should include a maximum
number of laundry and sterilisation
cycles’.
Before the end of this year, these
guidelines will be mandatory for
Indian pharma companies exporting
their products to the European market.
Clean room laundering of pharma
uniforms, which was good-to-have
until now, will become a must-have.
And Micronclean – with its ready
capacity and technical expertise – is
perfectly poised to fulfil this demand.
Reported by Mrigank Warrier, Associate Editor,
Clean India Journal Inside the laboratory CIJ

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