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New Centre of Excellence facility opens
Shield Medicare - Ecolab's Centre of Excellence for Contamination Control - is celebrating a new stage in its evolution with the opening of a purpose built manufacturing facility at Baglan Energy Park, near Swansea, South Wales.
In addition to quadrupling the size of the former production facilities, the new site houses state-of-the-art production cleanrooms and laboratories, ensuring quality of product and response to the customer.
The new facility comprises several high specification Grade B, C and D cleanrooms, with Grade A filtration over all open manufacturing processes.
Large volume production enables single-batch supply to major pharmaceutical companies.
The cleanroom design incorporates many new features to minimise contamination risk from people traffic and air flow during the production process. These include electronic interlocking hatches, talk-through panels and the latest intercom systems.
Even the change areas and preparation rooms are high specification and make use of different coloured flooring to identify "clean" and "dirty" areas, along with traditional step-over benches.
Automation of the production processes ensures consistent and timely manufacture, resulting in a superior product. Please contact Customer Services for information or advice regarding your cleanroom application:
+44(0)1252 717616 or info.shieldmedicare@ecolab.co.uk
Working with customers to achieve GMP
Although life science cleanrooms are required to operate to GMP and maintain specific microbiological and particulate limits according to the grade of cleanroom, there is little advice on how this should be achieved.
Shield Medicare – a division of Ecolab – is able to give customers the benefit of its experience of manufacturing in cleanrooms and can advise on many aspects of contamination control, through confidential consultation, technical support and the supply of helpful articles and documents.
One thing stated very clearly by GMP is that:
"Disinfectants used in Grade A and B areas should be sterile prior to use"
Shield Medicare offers Klercide - the widest available range of disinfectants – which includes sterile alcohols with highest specification (EP) Water for Injection and unique chemical formulations. Trigger spray products are all protected against in-use contamination by the patented SteriShield Delivery System.
GMP also states that:
"The transfer of materials into and out of the unit is one of the greatest potential sources of contamination"
Research has shown that spraying and wiping is the most effective method of removing bioburden during the transfer process, especially for the removal of spores. We offer Klerwipe - a wide range of sterile low particulate dry and impregnated wipes. We also offer Klerpack - a unique range of cleanroom consumables multi-packed in polythene to reduce paper and improve the transfer process.
Shield Medicare regularly gives presentations and can offer a range of helpful technical articles to assist in meeting GMP requirements. Please contact Customer Services for information or advice regarding your cleanroom application:
+44(0)1252 717616 or info.shieldmedicare@ecolab.co.uk