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White Paper: Design Tomorrow’s Cleanroom Today
Originally Published in Pharmacy Purchasing and Products Magazine, Volume 19, Number 7 (July 2022) Intro Excerpt: "When designing a cleanroom for a health facility that compounds sterile drugs, two...
Engineering Control Options Under USP 800
This webinar is 2 of 4 in a series sponsored by Nuaire and originally released by Pharmacy Purchasing and Products Magazine. In this webinar Bryan Prince, owner of Lab Red Pharmacy Consultants...
Video: Working Safety In Your Containment Ventilated Enclosure
Thank You to the Nuaire marketing team for letting me work with you on this project. The goal of this video was to teach compounding technicians how to operate safely inside of a containment primary...
Bryan Prince at PPPmag.com
Since 2016 I have had the pleasure of writing technical papers for Nuaire, most of which have been published at Pharmacy Purchasing Products magazine at special inserts. The educational and...
IMPROVE WORKFLOW WITH CLEANROOM DESIGN
Original Article Published PPGMag.com- November 2021: Designing a cleanroom requires a multifaceted process that should reflect the facility's compounding model-comprising drug volumes, types...
MINIMIZE EXPOSURE TO HAZARDOUS DRUGS IN THE COMPOUNDING PHARMACY
Handling hazardous drugs in the compounding pharmacy, per USP chapter <800> guidelines, involves strategic workflow strategies with the goal of minimizing personnel and environmental exposure. In...
HOW TO SOLVE CLEANROOM TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY PROBLEMS
One of the most common issues a cleanroom will encounter is inconsistent temperature and humidity parameters. Because of the varying weather conditions and atmospheric pressure outside the...
PRIMARY ENGINEERING CONTROL PLACEMENT IN THE CLEANROOM
No two cleanroom suites are designed alike. Effective PEC placement will differ for sterile non-hazardous compounding versus sterile hazardous compounding, for example. Further, some cleanrooms may...
Facility and Engineering Controls Under USP <800 Guildelines - Part 2
In light of the recently published versions of USP chapters <795>, <797>, and <800>, with the intention of creating cohesive alignment between nonsterile and sterile compounding,...
Design a USP <795> Compliant Compounding Space
Original Article Published Pharmacy Purchasing Products Magazine: Link to Full Article: Design a <795> Compliant Compounding Space : September 2019 - Pharmacy Purchasing & Products Magazine...
Optional HEPA filtration is a best practice design concept for USP <800> Nonsterile Compounding Rooms
(Transcript from Bryan Prince on The Pharmacy Inspection podcast - Listen to AUDIO here) Hello to all of my compounding friends and colleagues and welcome to another episode of the Pharmacy...
Is This Building Right for My Compounding Pharmacy?
[Transcript from The Pharmacy Inspection Podcast- Episode 44 - Listen to Audio here.] There are quite a few “unintended consequences” with USP 800 compliance and unfortunately most of those are...
Demystifying Some Myths Around USP <800>
As a consultant in the compounding pharmacy industry I get a lot of calls and a fair amount of interactions, which often are discussing or demystifying things that people have heard. In todays...
Cleanroom Temperature and Humidity Problems: Who is going to own this problem?
Let me go ahead and tell you how the twice a month email or phone calls goes, it’s something like this. Hey Bryan, we were given your name by so-and-so because we are having temperature and/or...
FACILITY AND ENGINEERING CONTROLS USING USP 800 GUIDELINES
Part 1 White Paper: The implementation of United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter <800> “Hazardous Drugs—Handling in Healthcare Settings” is a major part of the evolution and “new...