To meet the unique needs of patients, millions of medications are compounded each year. USP develops standards for preparing these compounded sterile medications to reduce risks, such as contamination, infection, and incorrect dosing. Specifically, the USP Chapter <797> establishes standards and products for cleaning and disinfecting the pharmacy cleanroom.
As the third largest manufacturer of culture media in the United States, manufacturing more than 2,700 different media products, Hardy Diagnostics provides many different cleaning and disinfecting products to meet these strict standards.
The company’s culture media is useful in the detection of bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli, Tuberculosis, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Legionella, and others. In addition, the company’s media fill aseptic verification kits, surface and personnel sampling plates/swabs, and microbial air sampling instruments succssfully disinfect compounding facilities and pharmaceutical cleanrooms.
