Remediating Water System Biofilm - What to Do After It Gets Ahead of You

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar discusses what out-of-control biofilm looks like in the monitoring data. Sometimes extreme systemic control measures are needlessly taken when the problem was poor sampling and not a system issue at all. In this webinar you will be taught what a real biofilm problem looks like. You will also be taught what sanitization strategies work best for destroying a biofilm problem as well as how to keep it from happening over and over. The causes of water system biofilm getting out of control and why routine measures no longer work will be discussed. It also covers what to do to regain control and maintain that control by understanding how it got so bad to begin with.

Learning Objectives:

• How to recognize a real biofilm problem from the monitoring data
• What sanitizers to use to bring the system back under control
• How to learn from your routine maintenance mistakes
• What system design elements provide ongoing microbial control
• How to never let this happen again

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Are you sure there is a problem?
• What is the scope of the problem?
• What caused the problem?
• What can remediate the problem?
• What can prevent its recurrence?
• Are you sure it worked?
• Prevention is far easier than remediation!

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will be valuable for all companies that operate WFI or Purified Water systems, particularly for those in FDA and EMA regulated industries, including Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Biologics fields, as well as consumer products and cosmetics companies. The employees who will benefit include:

• Validation managers and personnel
• Engineers involved in water system design and installation
• Utility operators and their managers involved in maintaining and sanitizing water systems
• QA managers and Regulatory Affairs personnel involved in defending water system operations and quality data to FDA and EMEA inspectors and outside auditors
• QA managers and personnel involved in investigations of excursions and preparing CAPAs
• QC laboratory managers and personnel involved in sampling, testing, and trending chem and micro data from water systems
• Consultants and Troubleshooters

T.C Soli
President, Soli Pharma Solutions, Inc.

Dr. Teri C. ("T.C.") Soli ,Ph.D. is President of Soli Pharma Solutions, Inc. (www.solipharmasol.com), and has been consulting full time for 5 years, serving consumer products and FDA-regulated industries with training and troubleshooting expertise covering water systems, sterilization, aseptic processing, microbiological and beta-lactam contamination control, and microbiological laboratory operations. Prior to consulting, he had 25 years of diverse "Big Pharma" operating company experience.

Topic Background:

Sometimes a little inattentiveness occurs when maintaining a water system. Perhaps it was caused by budget cuts and less active maintenance with fewer personnel, or perhaps by new personnel who don’t really understand the importance of doing things on time or exactly according to SOPs. Sometimes, a partially adequate sanitization process can lead to an ever accumulating level of biofilm development. Whatever the cause, sooner or later, you may experience what appears to be a level of biofilm development that causes repeated excursions and cannot be controlled by your routine approaches. It keeps coming back, worse and sooner each time you sanitizer. What can you do to get it under control?

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