Esco has announced that its Pharmacon downflow booths have been independently validated by International Safety Systems to ISPE Good Practice guidelines.
The booths were tested as per the guidelines on 'Assessing the Particulate Containment Performance of Pharmaceutical Equipment' published by the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE).
The test results demonstrated effective particulate containment of the Esco downflow booth.
Area surrogate concentrations ranged from below detection limit of 0.025ug/m3 to 0.25ug/m3.
Test results with the Esco downflow booth ventilation system running were about 190 times lower than when the system was not running.
Downflow booths provide containment by utilising high-velocity air to capture airborne dust particles.
Downflow Booths are versatile devices that can control exposure risk to hazardous materials for a wide variety of equipment and processes, as well as enhance cGMP practices.
