Pharmaceutical Testing – Oral Toxicity
Q. How is Oral Toxicity defined and reported? A. Pharmaceutical testing for Oral toxicity is reported as an Oral LD50, the lethal dose at which 50 percent of a population of animals will die when exposed orally.
Phosphate Free Critical Cleaning Detergents
Q. Which Alconox detergents are phosphate-free? A. Alconox supplies several phosphate-free critical cleaning detergents.
Cleaning Basal Media in a Large Tank
Q. Could you please recommend a minimum Solujet concentration, temperature and time for use with a CIP system to wash a large mixing tank dedicated to manufacturing DMEM-F12 basal media.
A. Without actually doing a study with your exact sprayballs and flow rates, I cannot give you precise time, temperatures and concentrations. I can give you some guidelines based on general experience with medical device cleaning validation.
Medical Device Cleaning: 17-4PH Stainless Steel
Q. A great deal or our instruments are manufactured from 17-4PH Stainless Steel. Our cleaning technician claims this material is corroding. I read the rinsing information recomending using a lower temperature for the 1% Alconox mixture. Is this a common issue with 17-4PH and are we using the wrong cleaning product or missing something?
Removal of Blood and Body Fluid
Q. Which Alconox cleaner would be recommended for soak cleaning stainless steel instruments soiled by blood and body fluids? Click to read the answer.