Cleanroom cleaning requires consistent, rigorous practices that are designed to avert practice drift. Incorporating documentation steps into the cleaning SOPs is an excellent method to address this issue. Nonetheless, 45% of facilities have yet to establish documentation processes for the preparation of cleaning solutions. Assigning dedicated cleaning personnel to these tasks promotes consistency of practice, and most facilities currently take this approach. Further, most facilities maintain the responsibility for cleanroom cleaning within the pharmacy itself rather than relying on outside departments to maintain this critical environment. The wide variety of available cleaning products provide pharmacy with an array of choices when creating cleaning SOPs.

More than nine out of every 10 facilities ensure that their germicidal agent is also an effective bactericidal, viricidal, fungicidal, and tuberculocidal agent.

A slim majority of facilities (55%) document the preparation of cleaning solutions as well as products and amounts used. Improvement in this practice is needed across facilities of all compounding volumes.

Contec continues to lead this busy marketplace, followed by Kimberly-Clark, Texwipe, and Acute Care.

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