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European Foreword |
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Introduction |
| 1 |
Scope |
| 2 |
Normative references |
| 3 |
Terms and definitions |
| 4 |
Establishment of microbiological control |
| 4.1 |
General |
| 4.2 |
Establishing a formal system for microbiological control |
| 4.3 |
Microbiological contamination control system quality attributes |
| 4.4 |
Identification of all potential sources and routes of microbiological contamination |
| 4.4.1 |
General |
| 4.4.2 |
Sources of microbiological contamination |
| 4.4.3 |
Routes of transfer of microbiological contamination |
| 4.5. |
Risk assessment |
| 4.6 |
Establishment of microbiological environmental monitoring plan |
| 4.6.1 |
General |
| 4.6.2 |
Monitoring locations |
| 4.6.3 |
Monitoring frequencies |
| 4.7 |
Establishment of alert and action limits |
| 4.8 |
Establishment of documentation system |
| 4.9 |
Personnel education and training |
| 5 |
Demonstration of microbiological control |
| 5.1 |
Trending |
| 5.2 |
Verification of the formal microbiological system |
| 5.2.1 |
General |
| 5.2.2 |
Out of specification (OOS) investigation |
| 5.2.3 |
Records |
| 5.2.4 |
Sample tracking |
| 5.2.5 |
integrity of results |
| 5.2.6 |
Data recording |
| 5.2.7 |
Data evaluation |
| 5.2.8 |
Trend analysis |
| 6 |
Microbiological measurement methods |
| 6.1 |
General |
| 6.2 |
Choice of sampling method |
| 6.3 |
Volumetric air samplers |
| 6.4 |
Culture media and incubation |
| 6.5 |
Incubators |
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| Annex A |
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| Guidance for life science pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical applications |
| A.1 |
Introduction |
| A.2 |
Risk/impact assessment |
| A.3 |
Demonstrating control |
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| Annex B |
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| Guidance for life science medical device applications |
| B.1 |
Introduction |
| B.2 |
Risk assessment |
| B.2.1 |
General |
| B.2.2 |
Example 1: Sterile – Terminal sterilisation is possible from a packaged product |
| B.2.3 |
Example 2: Sterile – No terminal sterilisation is possible due to product properties |
| B.2.4 |
Example 3: Non-sterile products |
| B.3 |
Establishing microbiological control |
| B.3.1 |
Microbiological contamination limits |
| B.3.2 |
Additional microbiological control considerations |
| B.4 |
Demonstrating microbiological control |
| B.4.1 |
Enumeration as part of measurement methods (Clause 6) |
| B.4.2 |
Methods for sampling |
| B.4.3 |
Microbiological Environmental Monitoring (EM) plan |
| B.5 |
Other informative annexes for Medical Device applications |
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| Annex C |
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| Guidance for healthcare/hospital application |
| C.1 |
Introduction |
| C.2 |
Establishing control in healthcare/hospital application |
| C.3 |
Risk assessment for operating room hospital applications |
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| Annex D |
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| Guidance for food applications |
| D.1 |
Introduction |
| D.2 |
Establishment of microbiological control |
| D.3 |
Microbiological cleanliness levels for monitoring |
| D.4 |
Demonstration of microbiological control |
| D.5 |
Example for food manufacture |
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| Annex E |
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| Guidance on culture based microbiological measurement methods and sampler verification |
| E.1 |
General |
| E.2 |
Air sampler |
| E.2.1 |
Volumetric air sampler |
| E.2.2 |
Settle plates |
| E.3 |
Surface sampling |
| E.3.1 |
General |
| E.3.2 |
Contact plates and strips |
| E.3.3 |
Swabs and sponges |
| E.4 |
Microbiological growth media |
| E.4.1 |
General |
| E.4.2 |
Media suitability (media Sterility and ability to support growth) |
| E.4.3 |
Media dehydration |
| E.4.4 |
Media disinfection inhibition |
| E.4.5 |
Plate incubation |
| E.5 |
Validation of air sampler |
| E.5.1 |
General |
| E.5.2 |
Physical collection efficiency |
| E.5.3 |
Biological collection efficiency |
| E.6 |
Experimental methods |
| E.6.1 |
Aerosol chamber method |
| E.6.2 |
Simplified laboratory method |
| E.6.3 |
Incubation |
| E.6.4 |
Collection efficiency calculations from testing results |
| E.6.5 |
Air sampler revalidation |
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| Annex F |
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| Rapid microbiological methods (RMM) and alternative real time microbiological detection methods (AMMs) |
| F.1 |
General |
| F.2 |
Implementation of RMMs and AMMs |
| F.3 |
Validation of RMMs and AMMs |
| F.3.1 |
General |
| F.3.2 |
Acceptance criteria considerations |
| F.3.3 |
Verification test execution considerations |
| F.4 |
Action and alert levels |
| F.4.1 |
Setting action and alert levels |
| F.4.2 |
Result outside of action and alert levels |
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| Bibliography |
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