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Risk-Management Assessment of Visible-Residue Limits in Cleaning Validation

Pharmaceutical Technology, Nov 2, 2006
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The use of visual inspection as a criterion for equipment cleanliness has always been a component of cleaning validation programs. Mendenhall proposed the use of only visual examination to determine equipment cleanliness as long ago as 1989 (1). He concluded that visible cleanliness criteria were more rigid than quantitative calculations and clearly adequate. The US Food and Drug Administration limited the use of visually clean criterion between lots of the same product (2). LeBlanc raised the question of whether a visible limit as the sole acceptance criterion could be justified (3).
Author(s):
Richard J. Forsyth , Julia Roberts , Tara Lukievics , Vincent Van Nostrand

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