Gilberto Dalmaso, PhD, Global Consultant and Subject Matters Experts Team Manager at Particle Measuring Systems, will look at recent developments in microbiological air sampling at this year’s Cleanroom Technology Conference.
Microbial sampling involves the collection of biocontamination samples throughout cleanrooms and controlled environments using active air samplers.
In his presentation – Comparative active air EM microbiological recovery using a ‘pepper-pot’ holes and a new ‘radial-slit’ design sampling head – Gilberto Dalmaso will highlight a recent study in which two microbiological air sampler atria were operated at adjacent positions, at the same time, in the same relative positions inside a microbiology laboratory at two different flow rates over a number of sampling sessions across a four-week period in a Grade C/D environment. One sampler was a radial-slit (RS) design, the second, a ‘pepper-pot’ holes (PP) configuration.
The resulting data will be discussed in respect of d50, physical and biological efficiency and microbiological recovery in the test environment.
Gilberto Dalmaso collaborates and supports pharma companies with sterility assurance and pharmaceutical compliance, especially for aseptic productions, through training and consultancy. He specialises in the areas of pharmaceutical microbiology, microbiological contamination control, rapid microbiological methods, process understanding, Quality by Design, aseptic processes and PAT in microbiology. He is a member of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Steering Committee and an auditor of the ISO 9001 quality system and HACCP. Companies that he has collaborated with in the past include: Fresenius-Kabi, NSA, Baxter, DSM, Pfizer, BSP Pharmaceutical and TEVA.
The Cleanroom Technology Conference will take place on 12-13 September, at the National Conference Centre, Birmingham.
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