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Key Takeaways:
- Corrosion occurs when stainless steel’s oxide layer is compromised in GMP areas.
- Rouge traps residues and microbes, making cleaning and sanitizing more difficult.
- The FDA sees corrosion in product-contact systems as a contamination risk.
- A proactive, risk-based strategy is better than reactive maintenance for corrosion.
- Maintenance should be guided by scientific data and risk, not just visual checks.
“A risk-based approach to stainless steel equipment maintenance” written by our STERIS experts, Elizabeth Rivera, Dijana Hadziselimovic and Paul Lopolito has been reprinted and posted on the BioPharm International journal website on Aug 25, 2017. In the article they talk about how laboratory tests can determine critical cleaning parameters for passivation treatments used to prevent rouge on GMP stainless-steel equipment.
