Memo Year: 2000

Destin LeBlanc has been publishing memos on Cleaning Validation since 2001.

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Campaigns and Dedicated Equipment

Campaigns and dedicated equipment may get special treatment in cleaning validation. For clarification, dedicated equipment is equipment used to make only one product. A campaign is a series of consecutive batches of the same product manufactured in a piece or train of equipment. In a sense, “dedicated equipment” is just a special case of a […]

The Applicability of Cleaning Validation

Cleaning validation is primarily applicable to cleaning of process manufacturing equipment in the pharmaceutical industry. The focus of cleaning validation is those cleaned surfaces that, if inadequately cleaned, could potentially contaminate the product subsequently manufactured in that same equipment. This primarily covers product contact surfaces in the cleaned equipment—these are the surfaces that directly contact […]

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