Environmental monitoring is one of the most important tests we offer.  As required, pharmacy or laboratory surfaces, and air, are sampled via an active air sampler. These samples are incubated and colony forming units are statistically calculated using Feller's Law and documented and compared to acceptable standardized levels.

An excellent tool for ensuring aseptic techniques and effective cleaning procedures are being utilized to minimize the level of bio-burden in your clean environment.  Not only do we test for viable particles, we can help you implement procedures to reduce these levels of potential contamination.  We keep historical data so we are able to monitor the trends in the monitoring and notify you of any abnormalities within the monitoring.

We perform many aspects of environmental monitoring depending on your application.  Do you need sampling for viable organism in the air or on surfaces?  We also provide sampling for particles within the air and can report the concentration ans sizes of those particle distributions.  If VOCs are your concern we can monitor for them as well, both known  and unknown compounds.

If you are a compounding pharmacy owner or director, you should be doing viable and non-viable monitoring of your pharmacy areas.  This includes areas within your hoods as well as in your buffer and ante rooms.  Contact Air Safe to learn more about what you should already be doing.  The USP 797 document revision become effective on June 1, 2008.