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Monday, July 31, 2006

Friday, July 28, 2006

Plastic Cleaning

Plastic can be attacked by typical cleaners. Stressed polycarbonate can craze. Elastomers can swell.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Monday, July 24, 2006

Friday, July 21, 2006

Determining Detection Limits

How do you know how much detergent residue is acceptable when performing a cleaning validation.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Insoluble Tablet Coating Removal

Water insoluble tablet coatings used for solid dose enteric pharmaceutical tablets are very difficult to clean from coating equipment. It was hard to validate the equipment and prevent cross contamination.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Optical Interferometer

A sensitive reflective fabric needs to be completely clean to calibrate an optical interferometer on site at an astronomy observatory

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Friday, July 14, 2006

Fiber Optics

Fiber optic cable needs scrupulously clean surfaces at the glass joint to assure efficient light transmission.

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Monday, July 10, 2006

Nuclear Decontamination

The use of strippable coatings to decontaminate reactor cavities is expensive and requires valuable time on the lift during outage.

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Friday, July 07, 2006

Veterinary Equipment

Equipment used for equine semen transfer in artificial insemination needs to be free of interfering residues.

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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Wineglass cleaning

Fragrances, dyes, dispersants and detergent residues found in household cleaners can interfere with sensory appreciation of wine in a wineglass.

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Friday, June 30, 2006

Prepare for Sterilization

Direct sterilization of dirty surfaces can result in sterile dirt or worse yet, dirt that protects pathogens from the sterilization process. Surfaces should be clean prior to sterilization.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Clean in Place

It is to costly and time-consuming to dissasemble large manufacturing filtration systems or tanks, mixers and blenders for cleaning.

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Monday, June 26, 2006

Pipet Cleaning

Lab pipets will not deliver and measure accurately or they may contaminate reagents if they are not cleaned. Their narrow tubular shape is difficult to clean.

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Friday, June 23, 2006

Titanium Prosthesis Cleaning

Titanium prosthetic implantable joints need to be cleaned prior to coating and prior to final cleaning for packaging.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Low and Non Volatile Organic Compound VOC cleaners

To comply with air quality requlations, the use of low volatile cleaning compounds is often required.

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Monday, June 19, 2006

Rinse Water

The wrong quality of rinse water can leave rinse water residues on rinsed surfaces. The last thing to touch the surface before drying is the rinse water.- whatever is in the rinse water can be deposited on the surface if the drying is accomplished by eva.

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Lab Accreditation

There are several instances where the use of cleaners can impact accreditation of your laboratory. One is to pass inspections by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). Another is water testing labs that must meet State accreditation standards.

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