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Solid State Technology

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  • Features

    • Features

      • Airflow modeling in cleanroom design
        Cleanrooms come in all shapes and sizes from special purpose minienvironments to large, expansive production facilities.
      • Contamination Source Identification (CSI): Tools of discovery
        Explicitly described, direct comparisons of cultivation-based and genetic-based identification methods have obvious deficiencies within each. Nonetheless, it can be assured that microbial detection will be revealed by one, if not the other. The question remains as to which tools are more sensitive, economically feasible, easily validated, and time-saving.

    • Editorial

      • Prevailing science
        By now, regular readers of this magazine have, I’m sure, noticed the special column from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) now appearing in each issue of the publication.

    • Special report

  • Special Section

    • CleanRooms Europe 2005
      This year, the eighth annual CleanRooms Europe trade fair will once again take place in Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Your Market Analysis

  • News

    • A natural beverage filtering process
      KIRKINTILLOCH, Scotland-A new water filtration technology developed by start-up Filter Clear, based on a two-decades-old invention, promises to help the food and beverage industry naturally filter out parasites from water-based products.
    • DNA sequence-based technology aims to meet FDA aseptic processing requirements
      FOSTER CITY, CA-An established DNA sequence-based technology developed by Applied Biosystems Corp. (www.appliedbiosystems.com) is now being touted for helping pharmaceutical makers meet recent FDA aseptic processing requirements for the manufacture of sterile drug and biological products.
    • FDA leader urges team approach to pharma manufacturing processes
      BOSTON, MA-“Your job is to assure us your process is safe; our job is not to tell you how to manufacture drugs.”
    • Robotic cleanrooms reach multiple industries
      ANN ARBOR, MI-Robotics use in manufacturing is on the rise in international industry as a whole, and specifically in most contamination-control environments except semiconductor, with a trend toward multiple-control robotics invading the cleanroom of the future.
    • Soaring R&D costs may lead to more industry consolidations
      BILLERICA, MA-Slow growth in the semiconductor industry, combined with rising research and development costs, may make the recent Mykrolis Crop./Entegris Inc./ Extraction Systems merger more the norm than the exception for contamination-contro9l companies.

    • CleanZone

      • USDA approves UV technology for fighting food-processing bacteria
        MURRAY HILL, N.J.-An ultraviolet-based technology developed by Intervent-a food safety business of BOC Group (www.boc.com)-has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (www.usda.gov) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) as a solution for inactivating listeria organisms found in food processing steps.
    • Precision prototyping process picks up
      CARLSBAD, Calif.-In a move to meet a growing need for upgraded lab facilities for its advanced R&D development, Palomar Technologies www.palomartechnologies.com) has moved to a 39,000-square-foot facility here that will serve as its international headquarters.

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    • Particles
      ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-Gordon Ely of Nelson Laboratories will lead an online class covering biocontamination issues, Wednesday, June 22, at 11 a.m. (CDT) via the IEST's Web site (www.iest.org).

  • Products

    • New products

      • NEW PRODUCTS
        The EnviroTrans environmental monitoring kit is intended for environmental sterility monitoring within a pharmaceutical cleanroom.

    • Product spotlight

      • PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
        Disinfectant products are a vital part of ensuring that the controlled environment is sterile and contaminant-free.

  • Columns

  • Departments

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