Kym Faylor is the director of Azzur Laboratories in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. She has fifteen years' experience managing a microbiology laboratory and assuring compliance with governing agencies, client specifications, and developing quality assurance aspects to conform to current advances in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology industries. Kym has certification from the University of California, San Diego in regulatory affairs and is a certified quality auditor from the American Society of Quality. Kym also serves on the PDA Task Force for Technical Report #13, at the American Society for Microbiology as a science educators network mentor and reviewer, at Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology working groups, and at the Society for General Microbiology as a reviewer. She has authored several publications and has served as a lecturer and trainer for USP <797> compliance.