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Environmental Monitoring & Bioburden Control Under EU GMP Annex 1: What QC Labs Need to Know

17 February - 2026 / 7 min read

Environmental monitoring (EM) and bioburden control are foundational elements of contamination control in sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing. The revised EU GMP Annex 1 was ...

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Evaluating Automated Environmental Monitoring Systems

4 February - 2026 / 13 min read

When Every Detail Matters Automation is transforming how QC labs safeguard pharmaceutical product quality. What once depended on ...

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Automated Colony Counting: Improving Accuracy, Reproducibility, and Data Integrity in QC Microbiology

29 January - 2026 / 7 min read

Colony counting is a foundational activity in pharmaceutical microbiology. It supports environmental monitoring, bioburden ...

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QC microbiology analyst manually reading plates and recording colony counts

Accelerating CAR T cell therapy release testing with rapid microbial detection methods

13 January - 2026 / 13 min read

Time is one of the biggest challenges in the development and release of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs), such as CAR ...

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