Surface Controls in Clean Rooms

Critical materials inside the clean room, personnel entry, clean room usage surfaces, and material exit surfaces are sampled using transport swabs and evaluated microbiologically.

The evaluation methods and standards are provided below.

ISO 14698-1 Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Biocontamination control - Part 1:
General principles and methods

ISO 14698-2 Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Biocontamination control - Part 2:
Evaluation and interpretation of biocontamination data