Environmental Monitoring – Essentials for Pharmacy Personnel

This program reviews environmental monitoring for a compliant sterile compounding facility, including the regulatory conditions, testing requirements, critical parameters, interpretation of reports and areas of concern.

Learning Objectives for Pharmacists
1. Describe the overlapping regulatory conditions which govern the Environmental Monitoring of any controlled space 2. Contrast the differences between ISO Classed Cleanroom Environmental Testing Requirements and those for Segregated Compounding Areas (SCAs) 3. Outline the critical testing parameters for controlled spaces used for sterile compounding of drugs for “human-use”

Learning Objectives for Technicians:
1. Outline the cleaning processes for compounding areas which fail Environmental Testing protocols 2. List three (3) areas of concern when accompanying Testing Personnel into your ISO Classed Environments

The American College of Apothecaries (ACA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. ACA credit for this program is approved for 1.0 contact hour (0.1 CEUs) of continuing education credit for pharmacists and technicians: ACPE UAN#: 0201-9999-20-031-H07-P/T.

If you are interested in earning credit for this program, please note that you will be asked to enter your NABP e-Profile ID and date of birth during the credit selection step of the registration process. If you have not yet registered your NABP e-Profile ID, please visit www.nabp.net.