Cleanroom Cleaning Products and Storage

Al Rosen

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Thanks,

I suppose I'm just looking for best practice. We are relatively new to clean rooms so the more information I can get the better really. I know the standards are out there but I find talking to people works better
Talking to people provides opinions. It's best to rely on the original sources of information such as standards and regulations. Just my opinion!
 

Ninja

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I notice that this thread is now in medical devices...it didn't start there...
All feedback from me is based on the fact that it was NOT in the medical devices forum...
I cannot comment beyond air quality if there are specific Medical Device regulations...
 

Al Rosen

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I notice that this thread is now in medical devices...it didn't start there...
All feedback from me is based on the fact that it was NOT in the medical devices forum...
I cannot comment beyond air quality if there are specific Medical Device regulations...
I moved the thread to the medical devices forum based on post#3.
 

Ninja

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Fair enough...but if the statement "We don't have any strict requirements..." is 100% true, then everything else I said is true.

"Best Practices" and "necessary" rarely meet, FWIW...
Don't spend time and money achieving a goal you've already achieved...
 

Deli88

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Last question, I swear! We dispose of cleaning materials including floor mop heads after ever use, is this standard practice? Is there a means of using the mop heads again, i.e laundering them and/or autoclave and reuse or is this a big hell no? If it can be done is there any companies that provide a service like this?
 

Ninja

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I'll repeat that I am not in medical...and anything I offer is from industrial and microelectronics and does not include any bioburden requirements.

It's results that matter for cleanrooms, not methods. IF you reuse the mopheads 10x...do you still get acceptable results?
We used the same mops we used in the cafeteria and office, and changed them out when they didn't leave the floor visually clean anymore.
Standard practice is WAY overkill from what I've seen....
For my rooms, they were measured by count in the air...we paid attention to count in the air. Mopheads did not contribute to this, and we did not process our materials on the floor.
 

Al Rosen

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Last question, I swear! We dispose of cleaning materials including floor mop heads after ever use, is this standard practice? Is there a means of using the mop heads again, i.e laundering them and/or autoclave and reuse or is this a big hell no? If it can be done is there any companies that provide a service like this?

I don't have a clean-room requirement for my medical device. My experience with clean-rooms is in the manufacture of microelectronics. Our non clean-room production floor met the ISO 8 (100K particle count). I've not heard of anyone throwing out mop heads after every use.

Did you measure particle count according to iso14644-1 Annex A? You didn't state the number of locations within the room or the size of the rooms.

Look at ISO14644-5 Cleanrooms and associate controlled environments - Part 5: Operations and follow the link in post 14.
 

Deli88

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I don't have a clean-room requirement for my medical device. My experience with clean-rooms is in the manufacture of microelectronics. Our non clean-room production floor met the ISO 8 (100K particle count). I've not heard of anyone throwing out mop heads after every use.

Did you measure particle count according to iso14644-1 Annex A? You didn't state the number of locations within the room or the size of the rooms.

Look at ISO14644-5 Cleanrooms and associate controlled environments - Part 5: Operations and follow the link in post 14.
Hi Al,

Yes to the above questions. We have an outside contractor who carries out counts as per ISO14644 for us.
 
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