Cleanrooms
provide critical support for the production of life saving products and
components (pharmaceutical preparations and medical devices), lifesaving
operations (surgical units) are part of the fabric of modern industrial
production (electronics manufacture). Given this central role, the modern
conception of the 'cleanroom', with specially filtered air, set pressure
differentials, appropriate airflows, gowned staff and with the application of
disinfectants, is a development of the 1950s (although aspects of 'clean air'
date back much further as the second chapter of this book explains). From the
1960s conception cleanrooms have evolved in terms of improvements to the
control of the physical environment, to minimising contamination risks from
operators through the use of barrier technology, and more recent use of
single-use systems (biodisposable technologies).
In
relation to this, Tim Sandle has undertaken a review of innovations in
cleanroom technology for the magazine Pharma Times. The reference is:
Sandle,
T. (2013). Innovations in Cleanroom Technology, Pharma Times, 45 (12): 14-15
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