Professional societies: their role in cleanroom technology

摘要

Contamination control and cleanroom technology is an essential tool for the manufacture of a great variety of quality products: semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, sterile pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and medical devices, precision mechanic instruments and high-quality food products and beverages, to name but a few. The market value worldwide of products manufactured within cleanroom and with the help of contamination control procedures already totals many hundred billion US Dollars a year, and this value continues to grow at an impressive pace.