SIST EN 17141:2020
(Main)Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Biocontamination control
Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Biocontamination control
This European Standard establishes the principles and basic methodology of a formal system of biocontamination control in Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments. These principles are based on establishing control and then on demonstrating control.
This standard specifies the methods required for assessing risk monitoring risk zones in a consistent way and for applying control measures appropriate to the degree of risk involved.
It will also give guidance on the assessment and verification of microbiological sampling devices, with the aim of helping users standardize their monitoring so that results from one facility to another can be compared.
Within this standard, only microbiological hazards are addressed.
There is specific guidance given on common applications, including Food, Hospitals and Life Sciences (Pharma/Biopharma and Medical Devices).
Reinräume und zugehörige Reinraumbereiche - Biokontaminationskontrolle
Dieses Dokument legt die Anforderungen, Empfehlungen und Methodiken für die mikrobiologische Kontaminationskontrolle in auf Sauberkeit kontrollierten Bereichen fest. Darüber hinaus legt dieses Dokument die Anforderungen an die Erstellung und den Nachweis der mikrobiologischen Kontrolle in auf Sauberkeit kontrollierten Bereichen fest.
Dieses Dokument beschränkt sich auf lebensfähige mikrobiologische Kontamination und schließt alle Betrachtungen endotoxiner, proteinös-infektiöser und viraler Kontamination aus.
Es bestehen spezifische Leitfäden zu gemeinsamen Anwendungen, einschließlich Pharma/Biopharma, Medizinprodukte, Krankenhäuser und Lebensmittel.
Salles propres et environnements maîtrisés apparentés - Maîtrise de la biocontamination
La présente Norme européenne établit les principes et la méthodologie de base d’un système formalisé de maîtrise de la biocontamination dans les salles propres et les environnements maîtrisés apparentés. Ces principes s’appuient sur l’établissement et la démonstration d’une telle maîtrise.
La présente Norme spécifie les méthodes requises pour évaluer les risques, assurer une surveillance cohérente des zones à risque et appliquer les mesures de contrôle adaptées au niveau de risque concerné.
Elle fournit également des préconisations concernant l’évaluation et la vérification des dispositifs d’échantillonnage microbiologique, en vue d’aider les utilisateurs à normaliser leur surveillance de manière à faciliter la comparaison entre deux installations.
La présente Norme ne traite toutefois que des dangers microbiologiques.
Elle fournit des préconisations spécifiques concernant certaines applications courantes, comme l’agroalimentaire, les services hospitaliers et les sciences de la vie (pharmaceutique/ biopharmaceutique et dispositifs médicaux).
Čiste sobe in podobna nadzorovana okolja - Kontrola biokontaminacije
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 17141:2020
01-november-2020
Nadomešča:
SIST EN ISO 14698-1:2004
SIST EN ISO 14698-2:2004
SIST EN ISO 14698-2:2004/AC:2007
Čiste sobe in podobna nadzorovana okolja - Kontrola biokontaminacije
Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments - Biocontamination control
Reinräume und zugehörige Reinraumbereiche - Biokontaminationskontrolle
Salles propres et environnements maîtrisés apparentés - Maîtrise de la biocontamination
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 17141:2020ICS:
13.040.35 Brezprašni prostori in Cleanrooms and associated
povezana nadzorovana controlled environments
okolja
SIST EN 17141:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
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EN 17141
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
August 2020
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 13.040.35
English Version
Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments -
Biocontamination control
Salles propres et environnements maîtrisés apparentés Reinräume und zugehörige Reinraumbereiche -
- Maîtrise de la biocontamination BiokontaminationskontrolleThis European Standard was approved by CEN on 4 November 2019.
CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this
European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
member.This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre has the same status as the official versions.CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
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Contents Page
European foreword ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1 Scope .................................................................................................................................................................... 8
2 Normative references .................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Terms and definitions ................................................................................................................................... 8
4 Establishment of microbiological control ........................................................................................... 11
4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
4.2 Establishing a formal system for microbiological control ............................................................ 11
4.3 Microbiological contamination control system quality attributes ............................................ 12
4.4 Identification of all potential sources and routes of microbiological contamination ......... 12
4.4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 12
4.4.2 Sources of microbiological contamination ......................................................................................... 13
4.4.3 Routes of transfer of microbiological contamination ..................................................................... 13
4.5 Risk assessment ............................................................................................................................................ 14
4.6 Establishment of microbiological environmental monitoring plan .......................................... 14
4.6.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 14
4.6.2 Monitoring locations ................................................................................................................................... 14
4.6.3 Monitoring frequencies ............................................................................................................................. 14
4.7 Establishment of alert and action limits .............................................................................................. 15
4.8 Establishment of documentation system ............................................................................................ 15
4.9 Personnel education and training ......................................................................................................... 15
5 Demonstration of microbiological control ......................................................................................... 16
5.1 Trending .......................................................................................................................................................... 16
5.2 Verification of the formal microbiological control system ........................................................... 16
5.2.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 16
5.2.2 Out of specification (OOS) investigation .............................................................................................. 16
5.2.3 Records ............................................................................................................................................................ 16
5.2.4 Sample tracking ............................................................................................................................................ 17
5.2.5 Integrity of results ....................................................................................................................................... 17
5.2.6 Data recording ............................................................................................................................................... 17
5.2.7 Data evaluation ............................................................................................................................................. 17
5.2.8 Trend analysis ............................................................................................................................................... 18
6 Microbiological measurement methods .............................................................................................. 18
6.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 18
6.2 Choice of sampling method....................................................................................................................... 18
6.3 Volumetric air samplers ............................................................................................................................ 19
6.4 Culture media and incubation ................................................................................................................. 19
6.5 Incubators ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
Annex A (informative) Guidance for life science pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical
applications .................................................................................................................................................... 20
A.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 20
A.2 Risk/impact assessment ............................................................................................................................ 21
A.3 Demonstrating control ............................................................................................................................... 21
Annex B (informative) Guidance for life science medical device applications ................................... 22
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B.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 22
B.2 Risk assessment ............................................................................................................................................ 22
B.2.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 22
B.2.2 Example 1: Sterile - terminal sterilisation is possible from a packaged product ................. 24
B.2.3 Example 2: Sterile – No terminal sterilisation is possible due to product properties ......... 25
B.2.4 Example 3: Non-sterile products ............................................................................................................. 25
B.3 Establishing Microbiological Control .................................................................................................... 26
B.3.1 Microbiological contamination limits ................................................................................................... 26
B.3.2 Additional microbiological control considerations ......................................................................... 27
B.4 Demonstrating microbiological control ............................................................................................... 27
B.4.1 Enumeration as part of measurement methods (Clause 6) .......................................................... 27
B.4.2 Methods for sampling ................................................................................................................................. 27
B.4.3 Microbiological Environmental Monitoring (EM) plan ................................................................... 27
B.5 Other informative annexes for Medical Device applications ........................................................ 29
Annex C (informative) Guidance for healthcare/hospital applications ................................................. 30
C.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 30
C.2 Establishing control in a healthcare/hospital application ............................................................ 30
C.3 Risk assessment for operating room hospital applications .......................................................... 30
Annex D (informative) Guidance for food applications ............................................................................... 31
D.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 31
D.2 Establishment of microbiological control ........................................................................................... 31
D.3 Microbiological cleanliness levels for monitoring ........................................................................... 32
D.4 Demonstration of microbiological control .......................................................................................... 33
D.5 Example for food manufacture ................................................................................................................ 33
Annex E (informative) Guidance on culture based microbiological measurement methods
and sampler verification ............................................................................................................................ 35
E.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 35
E.2 Air sampling ................................................................................................................................................... 35
E.2.1 Volumetric air samplers............................................................................................................................. 35
E.2.2 Settle plates..................................................................................................................................................... 37
E.3 Surface sampling ........................................................................................................................................... 37
E.3.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 37
E.3.2 Contact plates and strips ............................................................................................................................ 37
E.3.3 Swabs and sponges ....................................................................................................................................... 38
E.4 Microbiological growth media ................................................................................................................. 38
E.4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 38
E.4.2 Media suitability (media sterility and ability to support growth) .............................................. 38
E.4.3 Media dehydration ....................................................................................................................................... 39
E.4.4 Media disinfectant inhibition ................................................................................................................... 39
E.4.5 Plate incubation ............................................................................................................................................ 39
E.5 Validation of air samplers ......................................................................................................................... 39
E.5.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 39
E.5.2 Physical collection efficiency.................................................................................................................... 39
E.5.3 Biological collection efficiency ................................................................................................................ 40
E.6 Experimental method ................................................................................................................................. 40
E.6.1 Aerosol chamber method .......................................................................................................................... 40
E.6.2 Simplified laboratory method .................................................................................................................. 42
E.6.3 Incubation ....................................................................................................................................................... 43
E.6.4 Collection efficiency calculations from testing results ................................................................... 43
E.6.5 Air sampler revalidation ............................................................................................................................ 44
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Annex F (informative) Rapid microbiological methods (RMM) and alternative real time
microbiological detection methods (AMMs) ...................................................................................... 45
F.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 45
F.2 Implementation of RMMs and AMMs .................................................................................................... 45
F.3 Validation of RMMs and AMMs ................................................................................................................ 46
F.3.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 46
F.3.2 Acceptance criteria considerations ....................................................................................................... 47
F.3.3 Verification test execution considerations ......................................................................................... 47
F.4 Action and alert levels ................................................................................................................................ 47
F.4.1 Setting action and alert levels ................................................................................................................. 47
F.4.2 Result outside of action and alert levels .............................................................................................. 47
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................................. 48
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European foreword
This document (EN 17141:2020) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 243 “Cleanroom
technology”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by February 2021, and conflicting national standards
shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2021.Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document supersedes EN ISO 14698-1:2003, EN ISO 14698-2:2003 andEN ISO 14698-2:2003/AC:2006.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the
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Introduction
Clean controlled environments are used to control and limit microbiological contamination where there
is a risk to product quality, patient or consumer.In this document the term “clean controlled environments” is used to cover cleanrooms, clean zones,
controlled zones, clean areas and clean spaces.This document gives guidance on best practice for establishing and demonstrating control of airborne
and surface microbiological contamination in clean controlled environments. This document describes
the requirements for microbiological contamination control and provides guidance on the qualification
and verification of clean controlled environments.In order to establish microbiological control, it is important to understand the risks of microbiological
contamination. This is achieved by considering the sources of microbiological contamination, the
associated microbiological concentrations and the likelihood of transfer and the impact on product
quality, the patient or the consumer.A formal system of microbiological control identifies, controls and monitors microbiological
contamination on an ongoing basis. This is a process of continuous improvement and the principles of
Plan – Do – Check – Act (PDCA) apply, as shown in Figure 1.Figure 1 — Application of PDCA as the system for microbiological control
This document provides general guidance and considerations for a number of different applications. It
is expected to have particular use in the Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical, Medical Devices and other
Life Science industries, as well as in Healthcare and Hospitals, Food, and related applications which use
clean controlled environments.In the regulated Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical manufacturing sector there are already many
applicable standards and regulatory guidelines. These include the EU Annex 1 GMP [31] guidance on the
manufacture of Sterile Medicinal products and the FDA Aseptic Processing guidance [32]. The European
and United States Pharmacopoeias also provide some guidance on certain related topics. There are
numerous other documents and technical papers available from industry associations including the
Parenteral Drugs Association (PDA), International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and
Pharmaceutical Healthcare Sciences Society (PHSS). While there are regulations and standards on risk
management of medical devices, for example EN ISO 14971 [2], there is less guidance on the
microbiological control of clean controlled environments.In the Healthcare and Hospital sector there are EU Directives, including the Tissue and Blood Directives
for specialist and similar clean controlled environments. There are national standards and guidelines
for specialised Operating Theatres, Isolation units, Immuno-compromised wards as part of infection
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control. In addition, Hospital Pharmacy aseptic compounding units, Radiopharmacies and specialist
laboratories such as Stem Cell typically refer to Life Science industry guidance documents.
In the Food and consumer related industries, while there are regulations and standards on food,
beverages and cosmetics for example there is insufficient guidance regarding microbiological control in
clean controlled environments.This document includes a number of informative annexes that provide further guidance on
biocontamination control in specific applications, and includes, for example:— tables of microbiological cleanliness levels for monitoring of microbiological contamination in
certain types of clean controlled environments;— guidance in specific areas of microbiological control relating to the choice of environmental
monitoring (EM) sampling methods, the management and trending of collected data and the role of
alternative and real time microbiological detection systems;— appropriate methods for establishing control, selecting appropriate alert and action levels and
target levels as necessary;— establishing a microbiological environmental monitoring plan as part of demonstrating control of
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1 Scope
This document establishes the requirements, recommendations and methodology for microbiological
contamination control in clean controlled environments. It also sets out the requirements for
establishing and demonstrating microbiological control in clean controlled environments.
This document is limited to viable microbiological contamination and excludes any considerations of
endotoxin, prion and viral contamination.There is specific guidance given on common applications, including Pharmaceutical and
BioPharmaceutical, Medical Devices, Hospitals and Food.2 Normative references
The following document is referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN ISO 14644-1:2015, Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments — Part 1: Classification of air
cleanliness by particle concentration (ISO 14644-1:2015)3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, biocontamination control and microbiological control are
synonymous, and the following terms and definitions apply.ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— IEC Electropedia. available at http://www.electropedia.org/— ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp
3.1
action level
level set by the user in the context of controlled environments, which, when exceeded, requires
immediate intervention, including investigation of cause, and corrective action3.2
alert level
level set by the user in the context of controlled environments, giving early warning of a drift from
normal conditions, which, when exceeded, should result in increased attention to the process
3.3clean controlled environment
defined zone in which microbiological contamination is controlled by specified means
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3.4
cleanroom
room within which the number concentration of airborne particles is controlled and classified, and
which is designed, constructed and operated in a manner to control the introduction, generation, and
retention of particles inside the roomNote 1 to entry: The class of airborne particle concentration is specified.
Note 2 to entry: Levels of other cleanliness attributes such as chemical, viable or nanoscale concentrations in
the air, and also surface cleanliness in terms of particle, nanoscale, chemical and viable concentrations may also be
specified and controlled.Note 3 to entry: Other relevant physical parameters may also be controlled as required, e.g. temperature,
humidity, pressure, vibration and electrostatic.[SOURCE: EN ISO 14644-1:2015, 3.1.1, [1]]
3.5
clean zone
defined space within which the number concentration of airborne particles is controlled and classified,
and which is constructed and operated in a manner to control the introduction, generation, and
retention of contaminants inside the spaceNote 1 to entry: The class of airborne particle concentration is specified.
Note 2 to entry: Levels of other cleanliness attributes such as chemical, viable or nanoscale concentrations in
the air, and also surface cleanliness in terms of particle, nanoscale, chemical and viable concentrations may also be
specified and controlled.Note 3 to entry: A clean zone(s) may be a defined space within a cleanroom or may be achieved by a separative
device. Such a device may be located inside or outside a cleanroom.Note 4 to entry: Other relevant physical parameters may also be controlled as required, e.g. temperature,
humidity, pressure, vibration and electrostatic.[SOURCE: EN ISO 14644-1:2015, 3.1.2, [1]]
3.6
colony forming unit
formation of a single macroscopic colony after the introduction of one or more microorganisms to
microbiological growth mediaNote 1 to entry: One colony forming unit is expressed as 1 cfu.
3.7
critical control point
specific point, procedure, or step in the process at which control can be exercised to reduce, eliminate,
or prevent the possibility of microbiological contamination3.8
critical zone
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3.9
culturable
having the ability to grow and form colony forming units (cfu), using microbiological culturing
techniques3.10
environmental monitoring
measurement of specified parameters at periodic intervals within a clean controlled environment
3.11microorganism
entity of microscopic size encompassing bacteria fungi protozoa and viruses
Note 1 to entry: Microbe is synonymous with microorganism.
Note 2 to entry: The use of the term microorganism in this standard includes bacteria, yeast and moulds only.
[SOURCE: ISO 17665-1:2006, 3.25, [50]]3.12
microorganism of interest
microbiological contamination
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