Category Archives: Contamination Control

Cleaning & Disinfection, Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms, Contamination Control, Knowledge Base

The Top 6 Questions for Cleaning Cleanroom Environments

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The Top 6 Questions for Cleaning Cleanroom Environments
23
Sep

The importance of cleaning must be balanced in the context of environmental management. Cleanroom maintenance and procedures must be meticulously documented and followed. To establish an effective cleanroom cleaning protocol, the following questions should be addressed: – Which surfaces require cleaning?– What level of cleanliness is necessary?– How will the cleanliness be measured?– What cleaning [Read More…]

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Berkshire Products, Contamination Control, Knowledge Base

Nonwoven or Knitted? When It Comes to Wipes, What’s the Difference?

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19
May

Within the cleanroom or contamination-controlled environment, one of the most useful pieces of equipment is the wiper. From preparing work surfaces to cleaning up after spills, the wiper is expected to perform perfectly whatever the task. We depend on them every day, but how much do we really know about them? What’s the difference between [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms, Contamination Control, Hospitals

What is a Level 4 Biosafety Laboratory?

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corona-virus
26
Feb

A Global Response to Coronavirus. In a headline image a floodlit cruise ship sits somberly in dock. In the foreground, buses ferrying passengers across the tarmac vanish into the dark Yokohama night. Flashing lights cast a red glow onto the metal fences separating the liner from the port, illuminating the quiet drama playing out under [Read More…]

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Aerospace, Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms, Contamination Control

Retrieving Clean Samples From Mars

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clean-samples-from-mars
06
Jan

Welcome to 2020! A new year and a new decade that’s ripe with possibility and opportunity. A time to take stock, change life up a little (or a lot), and refocus on priorities. Maybe for you it’s a renewed commitment to better health? More conscious curation of your social media stream? Or perhaps it’s that [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Contamination Control

How the ‘Hidden’ Internet May Be Causing Injury and Death

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e-cig-dark_web
15
Oct

Habits can be hard to break. That impulse purchase that breaks our budget, that extra slice of pizza despite our diets, that glass of wine to relax on a Friday evening. Whatever the form of our own personal kryptonite, habitual behaviors are a sort of neural wiring and as such ingrained and a real challenge [Read More…]

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Aerospace, Cleanroom News, Contamination Control

Will Hayabusa-2 Reveal the Secrets of the Origin of the Universe?

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National flag of Japan on clear blue sky
02
Oct

Recently there has been much talk about the process and ethics of moving materials that may be subject to later analysis and scrutiny into ‘secure storage.’ But the quarantining of assets such as, shall we say ‘electronic data,’ is not the only target of enhanced protection and safeguarding. In fact, around 195 million miles from [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Contamination Control

Can Ethylene Oxide Ever Be Considered Safe?

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EtO-Sterilization
03
Apr

Let’s face it, no-one is getting any younger. Even the fittest, most active and health-conscious among us will confront a health challenge at some point in our life and, as we age, those concerns tend to become more complex and require more careful treatment. Where youngsters can get away with the trauma of the occasional [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms, Contamination Control

Colorful Cleanrooms and Cochlear Implants

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Conceptual image about human hearing
28
Nov

Just a couple of decades ago, the concept of biohacking – deliberately blurring the biological line between man and machine – was little more than just that: a concept, confined mainly to the avant garde of science fiction and futurism. And this was with good reason. When we think of enhancing human abilities with the [Read More…]

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Bio-Technology, Cleanroom News, Contamination Control

Lab-Grown Leather: When Contamination Control Meets Chanel

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leather . Rolls of gray genuine leather isolated on white background
09
Oct

From way back in the Stone Age to our current Silicon Age, we have labeled periods of our development as a species by the materials we have come to master: stone, bronze, iron, and so on.(1) And, at each stage, our adoption of nature’s materials has also brought with it the development of other consumables [Read More…]

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3D Printing, Bio-Technology, Cleanroom News, Contamination Control

Cadaver Bones vs. Synthetic

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Radiologist checking an x-ray image
29
Aug

Near to an abandoned Mayan temple in the steamy jungles of Guatemala, camouflaged beneath a matrix of overgrown vine and lianas, nestles a small medical clinic catering to the needs of, at most, a handful of patients. A private facility, not marked on any known map, the clinic is an important link in the supply [Read More…]

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