Pipetting 360º™ from RAININ: safety and compliance in pharma labs

Rainin LTS™ LiteTouch™ pipettes and BioClean™ tips provide solutions to regulatory and safety issues faced by pharmaceutical companies. Less user fatigue, due to LTS, means higher accuracy and reproducibility, also safer sample handling with reduced risk of accidental exposure to harmful chemicals. Inert BioClean tips help to eliminate sample contamination, ensuring absolutely reproducible data.

Pharmaceutical labs are required to observe exceedingly high standards of safety and regulatory compliance due to the nature of their work, exposure to chemical and environmental agents, regulatory-agency approval and the generally rigorous standards that are applied to the development of pharmaceutical agents. Within these facilities, manual pipetting is one of the most routine activities in which employees engage. The ability to conduct pipetting in a safe and accurate manner pervades virtually all laboratory environments and impacts all safety, developmental, quality and compliance issues related to the development of pharmaceuticals. Pipetting is a highly repetitive activity which can quickly manifest fatigue, inaccuracy, improper and unsafe fluid aspiration and transfer. Because of this, the minimization of manual fatigue through improved pipetting ergonomics is viewed as critically important within an environment in which laboratory accuracy, precision, and safety are required.

In addition, the analytical methods employed during pharmaceutical development are among the most sensitive used in any industrial environment. Common analytical methods include techniques such as mass spectroscopy (MS), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), atomic absorption (AA), gas chromatography (GC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and X-ray crystallography. Given the sensitivity of these analytical methods and the importance of the data, it is critically important to avoid both the introduction of pipetting errors and the contamination of samples with leachables or other consumables-derived contaminants.

Rainin’s LTS pipetting technology and BioClean tip specifications provide a combination of refined ergonomics and pristine consumables which collectively minimize manual fatigue while eliminating the opportunity for sample contamination. Less fatigue is directly translatable into significantly higher pipetting accuracy over longer durations. The result is greater manual control over fluid aspiration, movement and transfer, improved experimental accuracy, data reproducibility and greater safety in the handling of potentially hazardous liquids. Data reproducibility is particularly important with respect to compliance-related issues where manually introduced data deviations have profoundly adverse effects upon various processes.

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SOURCE: RAININ