Remediating Water System Biofilm - What to Do After It Gets Ahead of You

This pharmaceutical water systems webinar training will discuss what you should do when your monitoring data tells you that you may have a significant biofilm problem. It covers how to verify that the data and your interpretation of the data are correct, as well as the location of the problem which gives you clues as to what caused the problem and its impact on manufacturing and product.

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar discusses what out-of-control biofilm looks like in the monitoring data. Sometimes extreme systemic control measures are needlessly taken when the problem was poor sampling and not a system issue at all. In this webinar you will be taught what a real biofilm problem looks like. You will also be taught what sanitization strategies work best for destroying a biofilm problem as well as how to keep it from happening over and over. The causes of water system biofilm getting out of control and why routine measures no longer work will be discussed. It also covers what to do to regain control and maintain that control by understanding how it got so bad to begin with.

Learning Objectives:

• How to recognize a real biofilm problem from the monitoring data
• What sanitizers to use to bring the system back under control
• How to learn from your routine maintenance mistakes
• What system design elements provide ongoing microbial control
• How to never let this happen again

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

Are you sure there is a problem?

What is the scope of the problem?

What caused the problem?

What can remediate the problem?

What can prevent its recurrence?

Are you sure it worked?

Prevention is far easier than remediation!

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will be valuable for all companies that operate WFI or Purified Water systems, particularly for those in FDA and EMA regulated industries, including Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Biologics fields, as well as consumer products and cosmetics companies. The employees who will benefit include:

• Validation managers and personnel
• Engineers involved in water system design and installation
• Utility operators and their managers involved in maintaining and sanitizing water systems
• QA managers and Regulatory Affairs personnel involved in defending water system operations and quality data to FDA and EMEA inspectors and outside auditors
• QA managers and personnel involved in investigations of excursions and preparing CAPAs
• QC laboratory managers and personnel involved in sampling, testing, and trending chem and micro data from water systems
• Consultants and Troubleshooters