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Laundry

Clean Room Laundry
The right fit for pharma

Drawing on almost four decades of experience, Andrew Cole,
Managing Director, Micronclean India Pvt Ltd deconstructs the

concept of clean room laundry, its role in the pharma sector,
regulatory standards for pharma operator uniforms, and the

benefits of outsourcing their cleaning and decontamination.

In simple terms in controlled environments to Controlled environment

The manufacture of provide the correct level of Our facility in Bangalore is
decontamination, drying and
pharmaceuticals and other sterility so that when the garment a modern GMP Grade B (ISO
bio-technical products within is returned to the customer, it is Class 5) cleanroom which is
manufacturing cleanrooms ready for immediate use. subject to the controls you would
requires the use of specialised normally expect, such as routine
garments that prevent In many ways it is possible environmental monitoring
contamination of the product to think of a cleanroom laundry (microbiological and particulate).
by the person working in the as a manufacturing cleanroom This ensures that the garments are
cleanroom. The specialised that takes in soiled/contaminated processed and packed in conditions
garments must be processed in garments and returns them ready that are equivalent to those the
accordance with strict parameters for immediate use. garment would experience in use.

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