Presenter at Tema Renrum 2024
Read more about Marcs presentation below
Marc Mauro
PharmaMedia Dr Muller GmbH
Marc MAURO graduated as Engineer in Microbiology from Western Brittany with majors in quality control, mycology and environmental microbiology. He began his career as microbiology technical support in France, where he collaborated with the major actors of the pharmaceutical industry. Then, Marc joined Microbiologics as Europe, Middle East and Africa Technical Support, in charge of training the distributors, organizing workshops, seminars and visiting customers in more than 60 countries.
Since 2020, Marc is international sales Manager at Pharma Media Dr Muller (PMM), specialised in culture media dedicated from the pharmaceutical industry. His role is to train distributors around the world about culture media for environmental monitoring, assisting customers with any question they may have on regulatory or technical challenges linked to environmental monitoring, both in the sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical industries. Also, he is in charge of leading and speaking at technical events such as workshops, seminars and conferences linked with pharmaceuticals.
Automated readout of culture media
Microbiological culture media is used for more than 100 years; however, rapid methods are much more recent. Several fields are concerned in the pharmaceutical industry: Research and development, Bioburden, Sterility testing and Environmental monitoring.
Rapid methods represent a large variety of modifications in regards to the traditional culture method: composition of the medium (chromogenic), format (liquid, solid, cartridge…), incubation conditions (automated, time, temperature), and reading (use of automatic readers).
This presentation will focus on the available methods and trends for automatic readout of culture media for environmental monitoring, their advantages and limitations to increase in productivity and safety while reducing operation time in full compliance with Annex 1.
This presentation will include:
- Introduction to the automated plate readout
- Opportunities and limitations brought by the automation of plates readout
- Implementation recommendations
- Conclusion on the advantages and pitfalls to avoid