PMID- 30361285 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190530 LR - 20190530 IS - 1948-2124 (Electronic) IS - 1079-7440 (Linking) VI - 73 IP - 2 DP - 2019 Mar-Apr TI - Continuous Microbiological Environmental Monitoring for Process Understanding and Reduced Interventions in Aseptic Manufacturing. PG - 121-134 LID - 10.5731/pdajpst.2018.008722 [doi] AB - This paper provides recommendations for quality oversight, manufacturing operations, and industry perspective of regulatory expectations to enable aseptic facilities to move toward real-time and continuous microbiological environmental monitoring, thereby reducing interventions and future replacement of Grade A settle plates and nonremote active air sampling. The replacement of traditional monitoring with biofluorescent particle-counting systems provides an improvement in process understanding and product safety and reduces operator manipulations, assuring product quality and real-time process verification. The future state pharmaceutical technology roadmaps include gloveless isolators with real-time and continuous monitoring for aseptic manufacturing.LAY ABSTRACT: This paper advocates the use of an alternative and relatively new method of monitoring the air for contamination in biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. The alternative method is based on a type of instrument the authors refer to as a biofluorescent particle counter (BFPC). The BFPC method has the advantage of being able to detect airborne microorganisms continuously and to record the actual time of detection. The replacement of traditional monitoring with BFPC systems can provide better data, which can be used to improve the understanding of contamination risks in complex manufacturing processes, ultimately providing more confidence in product safety. The authors present data showing the suitability of BFPC. This immediate result is very useful for picking up early any possible contamination and should, therefore, provide a better way to monitor and control the risk of contamination. As traditional monitoring methods require manual manipulation, an additional advantage of BFPC systems is that they can reduce manual manipulations. Elimination of all interventions is a goal in the industry, because although they are tightly controlled, interventions are an unwanted potential source of contamination. CI - (c) PDA, Inc. 2019. FAU - Weber, Jeffrey AU - Weber J AD - Pfizer, Kalamazoo, MI, USA. FAU - Hauschild, James AU - Hauschild J AD - Johnson & Johnson, East Raritan, NJ, USA. FAU - Ijzerman-Boon, Pieta AU - Ijzerman-Boon P AD - Merck, Sharp & Dohme, The Netherlands. FAU - Forng, Ren-Yo AU - Forng RY AD - Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA. FAU - Horsch, Jeff AU - Horsch J AD - Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. FAU - Yan, Lisa AU - Yan L AD - Takeda Pharmaceutical Company limited, Los Angeles, CA, USA. FAU - Prasad, Aditya AU - Prasad A AD - AstraZeneca, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Henry, Robert Bo AU - Henry RB AD - Catalent Biologics, Bloomington, IN, USA. FAU - Claassen, Marja AU - Claassen M AD - Merck, Sharp & Dohme, The Netherlands. FAU - Villari, Philip AU - Villari P AD - Merck Inc., West Point, PA, USA. FAU - Shereefa, Shebeer AU - Shereefa S AD - Abbvie, North Chicago, IL, USA. FAU - Wyatt, Jane AU - Wyatt J AD - Alexion, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland. FAU - Bolden, Jay S AU - Bolden JS AD - Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN, USA. FAU - Pycke, Jean-Thierry AU - Pycke JT AD - GSK Vaccines, Belgium; and. FAU - Dassu, Dawood AU - Dassu D AD - BioPhorum, The Gridiron Building, One Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG dawood@biophorum.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20181025 PL - United States TA - PDA J Pharm Sci Technol JT - PDA journal of pharmaceutical science and technology JID - 9439538 SB - IM MH - Air Microbiology/standards MH - Drug Contamination/*prevention & control MH - Drug Industry/methods/standards MH - *Environment, Controlled MH - Environmental Monitoring/*methods MH - Technology, Pharmaceutical/*methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - Biofluorescent particle counters OT - Environmental monitoring OT - Rapid microbiology EDAT- 2018/10/27 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/31 06:00 CRDT- 2018/10/27 06:00 PHST- 2018/10/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/10/27 06:00 [entrez] AID - pdajpst.2018.008722 [pii] AID - 10.5731/pdajpst.2018.008722 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - PDA J Pharm Sci Technol. 2019 Mar-Apr;73(2):121-134. doi: 10.5731/pdajpst.2018.008722. Epub 2018 Oct 25.