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Can cotton swab be used in a cleanroom?

Remove small bits of contamination in the cleanroom can be a problem, you would have to choose the right swab or even ask if it can be created for your problem. You would soon find that this little wiper on a stick would also prove invaluable in cleaning delicate mechanisms, in precision surface...

Texwipe Sterile Swabs

Texwipe is the leader in the market of cleanroom consumables. In this post, we want to talk about our cleanroom sterile swabs, which are used in different industries (aerospace, cleanroom design/build, laboratory, pharmaceutical, biologics, compounding pharmacies, USP <797>/ USP <800>, etc) with p...

Swabs for Cleaning Validation in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Swabbing is the preferred method to validate critical cleaning within pharmaceutical manufacturing environments. The 1993 FDA Guide to Inspections states that direct surface sampling (e.g., with swabs) is the “most desirable” technique. Potential contaminants eluted from the swab are tested down to ...

Effective Swabbing Techniques for Cleaning Validation

Swabs

Searching for nothing would seem to be an absolute waste of time — unless you are responsible for cleaning validation. In that case, success is deliciously ironic since you can say, “I found nothing and that’s good news”. 

Let's start from the beginning!

Those involved in the manufacture and q...