How to Wash Your Hands Properly for Sterile Compounding

 

How to Wash Your Hands Properly for Sterile Compounding

Aseptic technique is a group of practices that is aimed at minimizing contamination from contact with pathogens. This process involves the maintenance of sterility rather than sterilization. And this is a crucial difference in understanding the techniques that ought to be followed during the process of compounding sterile products.

Hand hygiene is the primary step to keeping things clean. Staff in charge of handling products are primarily the source of contaminants introduced into sterile environments. Therefore, keeping the hands clean is a crucial step to ensuring that the introduction of contaminants that may compromise any fill finish made by staff is prevented.

This is because when these contaminants are not prevented, the end product will potentially harm patients who will use these products in the future.

AbbVie Contract Manufacturing has nearly three decades of experience as a pharmaceutical manufacturer and developer. We help global and domestic companies develop, produce, and scale biopharmaceutical products, owing to our extensive experience to prevent common bottlenecks and accelerate time to market. At AbbVie, we can help you with your aseptic fill-finish and more.

Crucial Steps to Hand Hygiene

It is crucial to note that hand washing is at a level within the garbing procedure. Usually after donning a headcover, face mask, facial hair cover, and shoe covers. You put on your gown after washing your hands because tap water is also believed to be a source of prospective microbes. During hand washing:

* Remove all types of jewelry and watches that are worn below the elbow

* Clean under your fingernails to remove dirt; do this under warm water

* Rinse thoroughly without letting the rinse water run over your fingertips

* Dry your hands using a lint-free piece; do this from your fingertips to your elbow

Tips for Good Hand Hygiene

* Do not scrub your skin with a brush. Scrubbing the skin with a brush might cause bruising and thus increase shedding, which can cause the risk of contamination.

* Wash all surfaces of every finger

* Use warm water when washing. (Do not use hot water as it may dry out the skin)

* Ensure that you are thorough during each wash

Moving further in the garbing process, just before donning your gloves, use a waterless, alcohol-based hand scrub; rub the product all over your fingers and hands until it dries.

At Abbvie, we offer GMP-certified manufacturing capabilities. We process over a million vials annually with an automated filling line. Your medicine fill finish procedures can be suited with customized packaging and labeling. 

Here, the nature of your biologic drug notwithstanding, you can count on us when it comes to aseptic fill finish manufacturing. We will provide reliable, safe, and ready-to-use products. To learn more about how we can assist you with aseptic fill-finish, contact us; we shall be more than pleased to support you.