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What are the compelling reasons that so many in our industry are championing the growing use of single-use contact surfaces in bioprocessing?  Here are some of the most commonly cited factors for using disposables in biopharma production.

The use of single-use product contact surfaces in manufacturing can:

• Eliminate or vastly reduce the possibility of cross-contamination between batches of product.

• Eliminate the need for CIP and/or SIP.

• Reduce Operating Costs 

• Eliminate the need for related CIP and/or SIP periodic validations.

• Permit true animal derived component free manufacturing, without the need for dedicated equipment or tankage.

• Provide for rapid scale-up or scale-back in a process.

• Avoid idle production capital equipment.

• Allow for near-JIT production capacity in some applications.

• Reduce upfront capital investments in stainless steel hardware and utilities.

• Reduce validation costs.

• Allow a company to recognize costs as the disposables are used in production (variable vs. fixed) rather than as amortization rolled into overhead.

• Reduce between-batch cycle time and provide greater convenience.

• Reduce production and warehousing space requirements.

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