A global disinfectant standard for cleanrooms: Presenting a harmonised approach

Disinfectant efficacy testing is an essential part of a facility contamination control strategy. Pharmaceutical and healthcare products facilities must know that the they are using can achieve effective levels microbial kill across range surface types. The problem faced by microbiologists production managers various national international standards use different methodologies. In addition, these methods have not been written specifically for cleanrooms test panels logarithmic reduction expectations considered suitable. order to develop standard suitable all pharmaceutical cleanrooms, Ecolab has developed Validex™ method, which independently assessed in this paper. This method involves 2 cm diameter disks, target 3 log vegetative bacteria 5 minutes; fungi bacterial spores 10 minutes. key criteria rationale selection, along with methodology, presented