Author Archives: Rienk de Bruijn

Automated Aseptic QC Sampling

Biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly interested in single-use innovations to improve performance and alleviate up- and downstream bottleneck constrictions. High-priority considerations for improvement include decreasing the number of process steps, reducing the risk of cross-contamination, and achieving a higher sterility assurance level. One bottleneck today is a need to collect QC samples at various steps during biopharmaceutical commercial-scale cGMP manufacturing, which typically is a labour-intensive manual activity that holds a potential risk of contaminating product or personnel. Alfa Wassermann Separation Technologies…