PDA Letter Article

Seeing the Hidden

by Rebecca Stauffer, PDA

Microbiology

How Contamination Recovery Rates Offered a Better Look at the True State of Microbial Control

Using contamination recovery rates to evaluate an environmental monitoring trending program changed the way Paula Peacos, Associate Director, Global Microbiological Compliance, Bristol- Myers Squibb, viewed the movement of microbial contamination within a facility, according to her presentation, “Using Contamination Rates for Environmental Monitoring Trending,” Oct. 16, at the 12th Annual PDA Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology.