EU RESEARCHERS TO DEVELOP PORTABLE CONTAMINATION DETECTOR
March 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project commanding a budget of Euro EUR1.4 million is to develop a portable device able to detect minute contamination within pharmaceutical manufacturing lines. Of course, keeping these spotless is of critical importance to the pharma sector to prevent the contamination of medicines. But checking for such contaminants can be a slow process. A European Commission note on the project commented: "Current cleaning validation techniques are largely based on laborious, time consuming and expensive swab sampling ...
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