In COVID era, the idea of total cleanliness could take you to establish a normal, daily question: how am I taking care of the dirty gown from my collaborators? Are we, as a company, doing an outstanding washing process of our dirty clothes? In order to define a risk-based decision…

En un foro de profesionales de Microbiología Farmacéutica tuve la osadía de preguntar: ¿Saben si existe una norma (es decir, ISO, ASTM, etc.) que describa los puestos de trabajo en la industria farmacéutica o de dispositivos médicos?. La finalidad de esta consulta, resultaba ser la necesidad de entender cuáles son…

The original message is at the end. I received this message this Father’s Day and I have been overly excited: “Hello Professor (I had the habit of calling it that). Excuse me. Today I had a 15-hour schedule and then I had to drive for two hours to get home. …

The era of Bcc has become official at United States Pharmacopoeia in its chapter number 60. Since november, 2019, this chapter describes methodology and testing parameters for the detection of microorganisms of this complex. Bcc is a gram-negative aerobic bacteria commonly found in soil and water. It is an opportunistic…

One more time COVID is part of our agenda as it will be for next months, years? But this time we are going to be focus on microbial security objectives that call the attention of the regulatory offices all around the world: 1-Bacterial Endotoxin Test (BET) can detect and quantify…

When I met Dra. Isabel Strong at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, School of Microbiology, we worked together by creating the program of a very new course for the first generation of microbiologists graduated from a private university: Microbiología de Industria Médica y Farmacéutica. From those years working together, the…

Think about the business owner who receives the first phone call of the day and is one of his collaborators announcing that he has been diagnosed positive. I think his face will look like: But at the same time, he should make important decisions, in order to solve this unfortunately…

Since I got involved in regulatory affairs of medications for Costa Rica social security market, I found such a a highly challenging world where patients and good quality medicines are the most important tasks. Of course, regulatory affairs is influenced not only by the regulations already published in Latin America…

When I asked Dr. Marcel Marcano (www.medicomicrobiologo.com.ve) to meet for a Facebook Live session in @microbiologiafarmaceuticacr to talk about pharmaceutical microbiology and real needs of the clinic, I was really surprised of how much we have in common, and I was really happy of finding such a very good microbiologist…