Medical Device Facility Cleaning
We make sure your facility and your reputation are spotless.
Source One specialized cleaning for medical device facilities.
Maintaining GxP compliance in medical device facilities requires a high level of attention to detail and adherence to strict safety and cleaning standards. Professional cleaning and sanitation services are the key to staying compliant and achieving great results. That means cleaning done by a company that is ISO- and GMP-certified.
“So generally medical device facilities have gone through an ISO certification, so they’ll look to their janitorial service to provide them with an ISO certification.”
– John Nigro, SourceOne
Cleanroom Cleaning is a Big Deal.
If your facility makes medical devices, you are subject to comprehensive regulations from the FDA designed to ensure cleanliness throughout the manufacturing process. (eCFR :: 21 CFR 211.56 — Sanitation.)
You’re going to need fully documented procedures (SOP), and documented proof that the procedures have been followed meticulously. The cost of non-compliance can be severe…from lost productivity due to remediation work to a complete shutdown of a facility.
“I’ve seen companies shut down production because their cleaning didn’t happen. And when you shut down production, lost revenue is the price you pay.”
– John Nigro, Source One
Our Cleaning Specialists Receive Classroom and Rigorous Hands-on Training.
Your SOP sets the standard. But documents don’t clean facilities, people do. It’s up to you to make sure that the people who do the work can meet your standards and be compliant with FDA regulations.
At SourceOne, we place special emphasis on having a certified team that undergoes comprehensive training in clean rooms and controlled environments.
Before they step foot in any medical device facility, our employees have classroom experience and hands-on instruction. They’re also going to be trained to your specific SOP.
That’s how you know the cleaning and sanitation work will be done to your standards and FDA standards with accurate legible work logs.
For us, it’s the only way to ensure that your facility will always meet standards and stay productive.
We Know The Questions to Ask. We Know Where The Problem Areas Are.
We’ve been at this a while now and when needed, we solve problems. We’re resourceful and innovative. When Covid-19 hit, we developed intensive protocols so that facilities could remain open and do their essential work.
More about our Covid-19 solution
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, SourceOne quickly designed a plan for our client to keep their employees safe and their facility open.
We proposed our Healthy Covid-Cleaning ProtocolsTM program which includes a dedicated SourceOne technician to disinfect high-traffic areas and critical laboratories.
Together, we worked with our client to identify a list of high-touch surfaces and potential high-risk areas. SourceOne performed the day/night disinfection 6 days a week, in 6 different buildings. This included electrostatic spraying in high-risk areas such as conference rooms and bathrooms at night.
The result was a substantial decrease in Covid-19 cases.
Put Our Depth of Cleaning Knowledge, Experience and Expertise to Work at Your Facilities.
Whether you have a small research operation or a large production facility, you can count on SourceOne to deliver ISO-and CGMP-certified cleaning. Our attention-to-detail and thorough documentation truly set us apart in medical device facility cleaning.
We can tailor a cleaning schedule to your SOP. We can be your daily go-to or supplement your own team as much as you require.
Discover the SourceOne difference.
Medical Device Facility Cleaning Consulting
We offer newer facilities and start-ups resources and comprehensive consulting on required cleaning processes and procedures to ensure their compliance and for maintaining proper containment, sanitation, and waste disposal.
Ongoing Maintenance Programs
We develop customized maintenance programs tailored to your specific needs, ensuring consistent cleanliness and compliance throughout your facility.
Let’s Take a Deeper Dive on Cleanrooms.
SourceONE is your go-to choice for medical device cleaning and sanitizing services in San Jose. Our staff is made up of experienced professionals who specialize in deep cleaning and sterilization, ensuring that your medical devices are safe and properly sanitized to prevent any potential contamination. Contact us today for a customized quote for all of your medical device cleaning needs!
Cleanroom Maintenance
SourceOne provides secure contamination control from ISO 3-ISO 9, using ISO-compliant and GMP quality programs and environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions.
Microbial Control and Diversity
Cleanrooms are traditionally designed to minimize microbial contamination. However, recent studies have revealed a diverse range of microbes in cleanrooms, challenging the assumption of a completely sterile environment.
While cleaning efforts reduce the abundance of microbes, they do not significantly impact the diversity. Archaea, including survival specialists like bacterial spore formers and halophiles, have been found alive in cleanrooms.
Temperature, Humidity, and Atmospheric Pressure
Cleanrooms must meticulously control temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure levels. These factors are critical for maintaining consistency, reliability in test results, and minimize particulate contamination.
Antibiotic Resistance and Cleaning Practices
Stringent cleaning practices correlate with the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microbes. This poses challenges for containment and potential economic losses.
The Benefits of Hiring SourceONE
When it comes to commercial cleaning in the Bay Area, you want a janitorial company that you can trust will provide you with the highest quality services. Here are a few reasons to choose SourceONE
Experience
Having been in the industry for over two decades, you can rest assured that we know what we are doing and will leave your facility spotless.
Comprehensive Services
Whether you have very demanding needs or just require standard cleaning, we will get it done. From building maintenance to cleanroom services and beyond, we can help.
Dedication to Quality
We have incredibly high standards when it comes to the quality of the work that we provide. We make sure to only hire the best and make sure that we assess the work of our employees so that your expectations are not only met but are exceeded.
Green Cleaning
We are committed to helping the planet in any way that we can, which is why we are a leader in the environmentally-preferred green cleaning industry.
A Closer Look at GMP
The GMP rules are very explicit regarding the requirement to clean and sanitize equipment and the manufacturing facility. Your company’s standard procedures and cleaning records alone are evidence of proper cleaning.
1. Cleaning and Sanitation Procedures
GMP requires the cleaning procedures to be fully documented in written procedures. These procedures are initially validated (shown to be effective) specifically for an item of equipment or an area.
Once validated, the procedures are then published as the SOP and implemented with high levels of attention to detail.
2. Cleaning Validation
All cleaning procedures should be validated (shown to be effective) under specific conditions of use. These conditions of use are specified in the SOP.
Employees cannot deviate from the SOP or alter the conditions of use without risking invalidating the cleaning methods. For example, it would seem logical that adding using a stronger sanitizer than the procedure requires would make cleaning faster or better. This is not always the case as you may alter the properties of the solution (e.g. lowering the pH) thus rendering it less effective.
The relevant GMP rules are to only clean under validated conditions and strictly follow procedures.
3. Cleaning and Sanitation Conditions
The written procedures describe the required conditions under which cleaning is optimal.
These conditions must be followed precisely or you risk unacceptable results. For example, too strong of a solution used in sanitizing could damage the surfaces of counters, tabletops, equipment and accessories. The pH balance has to be accurate or you could end encouraging bacteria growth instead of eliminating it. Also, the type and quality of the water used can impact results.
Your SourceOne team understands all of the variables and dials it all in for best results:
Title: Key Components for Optimal Cleaning Conditions
- Strength of the cleaning or sanitizing agent (e.g., 2.0% v/v)
- The type of water or solvent to be used
- The pH of the cleaning agent
- The temperature of the water to be used
- How much to dismantle equipment before cleaning commences
- The contact or residence time for the sanitizing agent on the surface
- What agents to use to clean off the sanitizing agent
- What standard of water to use in the final rinse (GMP, for example, requires purified water for injection as the final rinse)
4. Cleaning and Sanitation Records
One essential GMP rule is the keeping of detailed cleaning records. Cleaning records prove that cleaning took place and evidence of the cleaning outcomes.
For example, the surfaces are visually clean or the results of rinse water tests.
The records must also identify who did the cleaning and when and must be signed.
For automatic cleaning procedures such as clean in place (CIP), the cycle conditions are usually automatically monitored and the conditions recorded.
Cycle conditions may include the temperature, flow rate, time, concentration of solvent, and solvent agitation time. Often, CIP systems have alarms when something goes wrong.
The completed and signed records should be attached to the records since they provide the only objective evidence that cleaning has occurred.
What Must be Cleaned?
- The facility must be regularly cleaned. Particular emphasis is placed on areas or rooms where product is processed.
- Particular emphasis is placed on effectively cleaning all equipment in contact with the product, and it must be cleaned according to validated and detailed procedures.
- All equipment in processing areas not in contact with the product needs regular cleaning to prevent dust and dirt buildup.
- The inside of the factory should be regularly cleaned, but particular attention should be paid to the processing and storage rooms. The floors, surfaces, benches, walls, and ceilings should undergo cleaning at defined intervals.
- Cleaning and sanitation also apply to any equipment in contact with the product during manufacture, such as production and packaging equipment, transfer lines and tanks, and storage containers and drums.
We Take Documentation Very Seriously…a Case Study.
Good Documentation Practices (GDP) are the measures that collectively and individually ensure documentation, whether paper or electronic, is secure, attributable, legible, traceable, permanent, contemporaneously recorded, original, and accurate.
Compliant documentation builds confidence in the quality assurance system and practice. GDP ensures there is traceability in what is being documented. This process is useful for reviews and investigations. A reduction in assumptions/second guessing around procedures that are carried out by the SourceONE team is also a result of this process. Effective documentation practices provide consistent quality, performance of staff, and specifies clear instructions on what has been accomplished with the controlled environment.
Poor Documentation Practices Include:
- Missing signatures and dates at the time an activity was performed
- Non-uniform date and signature
- Activities performed on one day and signed for on another day.
- Illegible handwriting
- Too many corrections & missing reasoning within corrections
- Spaces being left blank and using white out or other masking devices
One of SourceOne’s Life Sciences clients come to us because of continual issues and lapses in GDP (Good Documentation Practice) including missing entries, improper entries, and corrections.
SourceONE addressed this by providing retraining on how to properly review logbooks. The client’s Quality Assurance team created a GDP tracker where all errors found on client-controlled logbooks and corrections made in logbooks are recorded to increase visibility into site documentation. Together, we created a QR code that supervisors can use to track a procedure to review client logbooks and perform any corrections. The QR code acts as a supplement to training.
Following the implementation, the clients noted a significant reduction in GDP errors.
At SourceOne, our focus is always on ensuring that your established processes are failsafe to keep your site production capable.
Pharmaceutical FAQs
WHAT TYPES OF LIFE SCIENCES FACILITIES DO YOU WORK WITH?
SourceOne focuses on the Life Sciences industry with specific focus on biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device laboratories (R&D) and manufacturing facilities.
WHAT MAKES YOUR LIFE SCIENCES SERVICES DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS IN THE INDUSTRY?
The nature of Life Sciences work creates serious challenges for facility managers due to the need for high standards of cleaning required to combat contamination from bacteria, mold and virus.
HOW DO YOU TAILOR YOUR FACILITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS TO MEET OUR NEEDS?
We begin with an assessment to determine the standards and protocols required to achieve the appropriate level of cleanliness for your specific facility. This includes ISO cleanroom standards and BSL (Biological Safety Levels).
WHAT IS GMP CLEANING?
GMP stands for Good Manufacturing Practices which is a system that consists of processes, procedures and documentation that ensures products are consistently produced and controlled according to set quality standards. Implementing GMP cleaning protocols can help cut down on losses and waste. Overall, it protects both company and consumer from negative safety events.
WHAT TYPE OF TRAINING DO SourceOne GXP TECHNICIANS RECEIVE?
Your SourceOne team undergoes comprehensive training and thorough classroom and hands-on instruction in cleanroom and controlled environment practices, tailored to the unique needs of life science facilities including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES IN GMP/GXP CLEANING?
Biopharma products demand a strict stand against contaminants of all types. Additionally, in the ever-evolving realm of biopharma, where new innovations emerge frequently, GMP cleaning remains the consistent foundation ensuring product and worker safety and efficacy.
WHAT IF I DON’T YET HAVE AN SOP?
If you are launching a new Life Sciences venture and need to develop a cleaning and sanitation SOP, we can provide consulting services that include an audit of your facility and operations. Together we will build a detailed cleaning plan that conforms with all necessary ISO/GMP procedures and protocols, along with Good Documentation Practice log books.
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