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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...
Unintended Consequences of USP <800>: Additional Costs for the Professional Stamps
There are definitely some unintended consequences of USP <800> implementation for certain pharmacies that I don’t believe the expert committee anticipated. I'm not trying to lay the blame at...
What is USP 800 Design Consulting?
We specialize in compounding lab designs that strive to lean your pharmacy's workflow processes, to mitigate risk, and for USP compliance. https://youtu.be/l2Ao6F93-lM Introduction to Compounding...
An Opinion on Casework and USP 800 Compliance
An Opinion on Laboratory Casework Hello to all my compounding pharmacy friends and colleagues my name is Bryan Prince and I am a compounding workflow and lab design...
Do I Need a USP 800 Nonsterile Gowning Room?
There is a question that has popped up multiple times on social media and I wanted to address it. The question is, "do I need an ante room for my USP <800> negative pressure compounding room?"...