New standards on biocontamination control
BSI Business Information has recently published BS EN ISO 14698 Cleanrooms & associated controlled environments - Biocontamination control, the first general international standard for biocontamination control, which comes in two parts. The first part covers the general principles and methods; provides the basic principles of biocontamination control and testing; establishing and verifying the formal system; expressing, interpreting and reporting results; and training and documentation. Part 2 covers evaluation and interpretation of biocontamination data; presents a framework for the evaluation of microbiological data and the estimation of results obtained from particle samples taken in risk zones - using the principles and methods given in Part 1 of this standard.