Best practices in environmental monitoring

This webinar provides an overview of the best practices in relation to environmental monitoring, providing microbiologists with a benchmark for their practices, as well as providing advice for those wishing to set up a programme or to take a programme to scale.

This webinar will also be of interest to quality assurance and production staff, who wish to understand the intricacies of environmental monitoring. The webinar emphasises risk assessment and the importance of corrective and preventative actions.

Topic areas we cover include:

• What environmental is and what it is not
• Understand the objectives of environmental monitoring as well as aspects to consider with EM methods
• Understand contamination sources and risks and how to profile microbial contamination
• Rapid microbiological methods
• Core elements of the EM programme – what, when and how often?
• Data and CAPA

Dr. Tim Sandle has over twenty-five years’ experience of microbiological research and biopharmaceutical processing. He is a member of several editorial boards and he has written over six hundred book chapters, peer reviewed papers and technical articles relating to microbiology. Dr. Sandle works for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the UK, and is a visiting tutor at both the University of Manchester and UCL.