A webinar entitled "Filtration FUNdamentals: pre-bottling best practices" was held on Thursday, May 20th from 12 - 1:15PM. It featured Maria Peterson, who is a filtration specialist with Scott Laboratories. The webinar included discussion on the following topics:
- Sterile filtration principles and practices
- QC checks before, during and after sterile filtration
- Turbidity vs filterability, and how to measure each
- Timing of additions before bottling and how that affects filterability
- Options for adjusting filterability in-line with bottling
- Membrane storage and management
- General bottling line sanitation guidelines