Category Archives: Cleanroom News

Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms, USP 797

Compounding Pharmacies: Exploring the Insanitary/Unsanitary Conundrum

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Black mold
14
Sep

Introduction When it comes to pharmaceutical products, medications, or nutritional supplements, as members of the contamination control industry – and as consumers – we like to believe that they are health-promoting, safe, and pure. From a professional standpoint, we understand the critical importance of preparing, packaging, and storing materials and compounds that will be absorbed [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms

When is a Pharmacy Not a Pharmacy? Or ‘A Horse of a Different Color.’

Posted on by Berkshire Corporation
07
Sep

Back in the ‘Old Country,’ polo is considered the ‘sport of kings.’ On any given day, weak sunshine bathing the pitch in a pale golden glow, the upper crust of the English horsey elite will gather for this centuries-old game of speed and tactic. Dukes and earls rub shoulders with up-and-coming titans of industry and [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms

Honey, I Shrunk the Lab!

Posted on by Berkshire Corporation
Genome
01
Sep

Aside from the perennially famous ‘death and taxes,’ there are two other givens in our modern world: continual miniaturization and impoverished eyesight. It might, in fact, be contended that one precedes the other but that would be a discussion for a different kind of post. In this one, however, we are excited to take a [Read More…]

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3D Printing, Cleanroom News

Out of this World – When Cleanroom Technology Enters a Whole New Orbit

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Space 3d Printer
25
Aug

Imagine the scenario: it’s a Saturday morning, you’re flat on your back staring up grimly at the underside of your car chassis. Various components are scattered around as you wrestle to loosen with some rusted widget that’s all that stands between you and success. With an exasperated jerk on the widget, your trusty old ratchet [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms

‘Automotive Cleanrooms’ – A Contradiction in Terms?

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Convertible top Down
11
Aug

When it comes to automobiles, we all have our favorites. A convertible with the top down is the only way to travel the California coast or the switchbacks on Maui’s Road to Hana. Electric hybrids are perfect for those around town trips when you’re never too far from a charging station. Gas-guzzling SUVs do double [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms

Getting High – The High-Tech Way

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Prescription for Medical Marijuana
03
Aug

Since the earliest recorded times, as humans we have sought ways to change our perception of reality. From our distant ancestors’ use of psychoactive plants and opium during the Stone Age (accounts of which later surfaced in the Neolithic era) to the use of alcohol in the eastern Mediterranean and in Mesopotamia during the 4th [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Robots

Keeping our Hands on the Wheel – Should We Resist the Rise of the Robots?

Posted on by Berkshire Corporation
Tesla Dashboard
28
Jul

Last week, in tracing the rise of the robot in the cleanroom, we looked back in time to the roots of automation in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century’s ‘Second Industrial Revolution.’ And it got us thinking. What could be the future of robots in the cleanroom? In controlled environments? In our everyday lives? Could they [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Robots

I-Robot?

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Cleanroom Robot
13
Jul

Our technological environment is a rapidly developing, always diversifying arena in which the only constants are growth and change. And this is nothing new. Although we consider our technological advances as being relatively recent – viz the growth of Silicon Valley and our entry into the Information Age – American history is replete with examples [Read More…]

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Cleanroom News, Cleanrooms

Trouble in the World’s Best Cleanroom?

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Bacterial infection tuberculosis
29
Jun

In the contamination-control industry, we all understand the importance of and difference in ISO classes. These global standards were devised and adopted when the U.S. General Service Administrations standards – then known as FS209E – were no longer adequate in categorizing the growing specifications in cleanroom technology. From the original six classes of the FS209E, [Read More…]

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Berkshire News, Cleanroom News

IEST 2016 Exceptional Woman Contributor Award Winner

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lynn-iest
22
Jun

Lynn Stanard, Senior Quality Manager, was a recipient of the 2016 Exceptional Woman Contributor Award by Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. The award citation reads: To Lynn Stanard, for her 25 years of active participation and leadership in IEST Working Groups. Her expert knowledge of cleanroom consumables has been fundamental to the development of [Read More…]

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