CORE® (Critical Ongoing Residue Evaluation)

While years have gone by and technology has changed, many GMP firms have not re-evaluated the effectiveness of their process cleaning detergent (CIP) products.  At the same time, the industry grows and new operations manufacturing new products blossom each day.  In both scenarios, the need for routine evaluations to be conducted is essential.  In the competitive world, cleaning down time costs firms enormous amounts of overhead time and money.  Normally these costs can be dramatically reduced by the use of more efficient and state-of-the-art detergents that work specifically against residues in current times.  At the same time, firms also find that combination cleaning, not in present scopes reduce the amount of cleaning time, cleaning chemicals used and the level of personnel required to clean critical surfaces.

The proper selection of optimal detergents can also positively affect; substrate integrity, effleunt concerns, overall chemical usage, storage & inventory issues. The CORE (Critical Ongoing Residue Evaluation) System is a service offered within the VAI Laboratories division of VAI.  The focus of the division is to provide our clients with a specialized laboratory service that can assist them in performing product contact cleaning validation studies as an external service.  This department utilizes user product residues on stainless steel coupons in our unique CORE Analysis Chamber to determine the level of cleaning achieved by detergents that are utilized in operations.

The CORE System provides an excellent means to define where present systems are and where they want to be in the future.  May it be older operations or a new operation, the CORE System provides the requirements necessary to meet both internal requirements and external regulatory expectations by providing you, the end user, sound scientific rationale in your detergent selection process. Veltek comprehensive pharma-biotech cleaning program also provides analytical methods of detection specific to over process cleaners as well as compatibility, TOC curves, conductivity curves, toxicological reports, and other controlled documents to help support your cleaning vaildation plans.