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Single-Use and Filter Validation Services

Streamline your path to market with our validation services – Optimize, accelerate, and simplify your process

  • Validation Services replicate your process conditions through lab-based testing to support safe drug production. We deliver tests, certificates, and expert guidance to ensure confidence at every stage.
  • Backed by decades of filtration and biopharmaceutical experience, our ISO-certified labs in key regions provide tailored services aligned with global standards, delivering reliable results for diverse formulations—from biologics to complex injectables.
  • Access a full range of validation services—from physical and microbial testing to extractables and leachables—designed to support patient safety and address your specific needs, enabling a streamlined regulatory readiness process.

Discover our main services

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Bacterial retention testing

Confirms sterilizing-grade filters produce sterile effluent under process-specific conditions, supporting safe drug manufacturing.

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Chemical compatibility testing

Verifies chemical compatibility and filter integrity of your filtration system to ensure safe drug production.

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Extractables and leachables and patient safety evaluation

Ensure patient safety with risk-based E&L testing, assessing plastic material impact on biopharmaceutical processes for safe drug production.

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Customer services

Delivers solutions for unique filtration, single-use assembly and bioprocessing materials challenges.


Tailored validation services to facilitate regulatory compliance

With decades of experience and a global team of specialists, our comprehensive validation services facilitate regulatory compliance and reduce process risks. We tailor solutions to support your specific needs, helping you select, test, and validate filters and single-use systems.

Upstream to the compounding tank/mixing bag

  • Chemical compatibility
  • Extractables/patient safety

Final storage single-use assembly

  • Chemical compatibility
  • Extractables/patient safety/leachables
  • Non-permeation test

Final sterilizing filters and/or single-use assembly

  • Bacterial retention validation
  • Bubble point/diffusion determination
  • Chemical compatibility
  • Extractables/patient safety/leachables
  • Binding study
  • Particle shedding study
  • Vmax™ confirmation i.e. filter fouling evaluation
 Validation Services for Single-Use Sterile Filtration Systems process flow. Including the following services, extractables and leachables Safety Evaluation, Bacterial Retention Testing, Filter Integrity Testing, Chemical Compatibility Study, Custom Services, Consultancy

Bioburden Reduction Filter

  • Chemical compatibility
  • Extractables/patient safety
  • Bubble point/diffusion determination

Sampling System

  • Chemical compatibility
  • Functionality test
  • Non-permeation test

Our predefined service levels help you determine the right level of support. Whichever you choose, our validation experts will be with you every step of the way. Refer to the table below for more information.

Service Level Comparison ChartClassicAdvanced
Satisfies Applicable Global Regulatory Expectations
Regulatory Query/Inquiry Assistance
Online Support
Call-in Support from Project Management Team
Test Customization1-
Bacterial Retention and Compatibility Study ConditionsProcess duration 48 h Max
Room temperature range2
Maximum process duration

 

Maximum process temperature

Extractables Study ConditionsModel solvent(s) selected based on risk level Extraction temp 40 °C and duration 24h, 7d or 21dCustomizable
Integrity Testing1 product lotUp to 3 product lots
DocumentationTemplatedCustomizable
Documentation Revision1

 

On specific fields3

Up to 3

 

on full document

1 Classic testing covers predetermined range of process conditions with defined study parameters. Advanced testing provides higher level of customization including process conditions, additional test equipment/resources and more complex study requirements.
2 As per Pharmacopoeias
3 Drug product and process information sections

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Navigating EU GMP Annex 1: Effective Strategies for Single-Use Challenges in Bioprocessing

This webinar will provide recommendations for addressing risks associated with Single-Use Systems raised in EU GMP Annex 1.


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