ISSN: 2157-7064
						Shintani H
	
					    												Chuo University, School of Science, 
Japan						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Rapid Assay of Bioburden, Endotoxin and Other Contaminnation 						
Author(s): Shintani H
Shintani H
             
						
												
				 Microbial testing performed in support of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production falls into three main categories: detection (qualitative), enumeration (quantitative), and characterization/identification. Traditional microbiological methods listed in the compendia and discussed by using the conventional growth-based techniques, which are labor intensive and time consuming. In general, such tests require several days of incubation for microbial contamination (bioburden) to be detected, and therefore management seldom is able to take proactive corrective measures. In addition, microbial growth is limited by the growth medium used and incubation conditions, thus impacting testing sensitivity, accuracy, and reproducibility. For more than 20 years various technology platforms for Rapid Microbiological Methods (RMM) have been developed, and many have been readily adopted by the foo.. View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2157-7064.1000204