摘要 |
A method of validating or verifying a cleaning process of a surface wherein the surface is the surface of any machine or equipment used in manufacturing, any work surface, the surface of any machine, instrument, a tool or utensil used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or medicine, or the surface of any laboratory equipment or machinery and the substance is any comtaminant, an active ingredient, a residue, a detergent, a product, a microbe or any other contaminant, the method comprising: (i) capturing an image of the surface using Infrared Chemical Imaging, (ii) utilising at least one algorithm to interpret the captured image thereby determining the amount of substance present on the surface, and (iii)determining if the amount of detected substance, if any, exceeds a threshold value. |