WEBINAR: EMPQ Essentials and Real-World Strategies for Successful Cleanroom Qualifications

Webinar date: 16 January 2025
Time: 15:00 GMT | 10:00 EST | 16:00 CET
Duration: Approx. 60 mins

A robust Environmental Monitoring Performance Qualification (EMPQ) is essential to maintaining cleanroom integrity, ensuring product quality, and minimizing contamination risk. Achieving this requires precise microbial identification at the species level and a risk-based, compliant approach to EMPQ that meets EU GMP Annex 1 standards.

During this webinar, subject matter experts will delve into critical components of effective EMPQ approaches using real-world case studies and data with a focus on:

• The role of species-level microbial identification in identifying contamination sources and its operational impact
• What microbial identification data can really tell you about your facility
• How curated microbial identification libraries elevate the accuracy and confidence of cleanroom qualifications
• How VAI Laboratory’s comprehensive microbial testing offerings can improve and support your product and drug development in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry

Whether you are setting up a new EMPQ program or enhancing an existing one, this session will equip you with actionable, data-driven, insights to enhance your microbial identification processes and reinforce your facility’s quality control.

Meet the speakers:

Christian Scheuermann - Global Technical Services Manager, Charles River Laboratories

Christian has more than 20 years of microbiology experience from both academic and industrial environments. He earned his master’s degree in biology at the University of Würzburg with additional studies at the Universities of Frankfurt and Naples (Italy) and at the Max-Planck-Institute. With regards to pharmaceutical microbiology, Christian is specialized in the fields of microbial quality control, microbial identification, and phylogenetics. He is currently working as a Global Technical Services Manager for Charles River’s Microbial Solutions team.

Matthew Smith, Ph.D. - Sr. Director of Sales, Veltek Associates, Inc.

Matt has been working for Veltek Associates for over five years. Prior to working for Veltek, he has held multiple senior positions in technical sales for over 20 years. He has been fundamental to the launching of VAI Labs and is looking to grow the division exponentially over the next several years. Matt has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware and a Postdoc position at the University of Pennsylvania.

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