Sponsor or Organizer: The Center for Professional Innovation & Education

Description: The course provides a basic but comprehensive presentation of sterilization procedures as they are now used in the pharmaceutical industry. The content of the course emphasizes the practical application of present-day basic scientific knowledge to the destruction of microbials, to the manufacture of sterile products, and to validation of the sterilization procedures used. After you complete this course you will be able to understand how and why specific sterilization methods are used in particular applications, how the methods are validated, and the strengths and weaknesses of different sterilization methods. You will also be presented with the trends in regulatory thinking applied to aseptic processes and in possible near-term future technological developments in sterilization methods and in microbial monitoring techniques.

Dates: 07/22/2009

Location: Costa Mesa, CA, USA