Personal Protective Equipment must be worn when receiving intact supplies (remote from the compounding area), receiving suspected/broken supplies, transporting intact supplies or compounded HDs, receiving intact supplies in the compounding area, stocking and inventory control of the compounding area, during nonsterile and sterile compounding, collecting and disposing compounding waste, administering, routine cleaning 460, collecting and disposing patient waste, and managing spills. – USP.org
Sterile Compounding Products Notes:
– Sterile HD compounding shall be performed in a C-PEC that provides an ISO Class 5 critical area
Metal and Glass devices may achieve sterility and depyrogenation by tightly covering with aluminum foil, and then exposing to dry heat in an oven at a mean temperature of 250° for 30 minutes. (Dry-Heat Sterilization under Sterilization and Sterility Assurance of Compendial Articles 〈USP1211〉 and Bacterial Endotoxins Test 〈USP85〉)
USP 797 states that: floors, walls, ceilings, shelving, hard surfaces, contaminated gloves, and supplies removed from shipping cartons are to be wiped with 70% Sterile Isopropyl Alcohol.
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