ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION AND STUDY OF CONTAMINATION

ASPEC was created in 1971 in order to :
 
• Increase contamination control knowledge and anticipate new market and technical developments, 
• Share contamination control experience and expertise, between experts of different background,
• Supervise scientific ASPEC strategy in order to be able to update information on contamination management and control issues.
 

• Chairman : Thierry PERLANT
• Vice-Chairmen : Jacques BLO and Laurent FULLANA
• General delegate : Laure ALLOUL-MARMOR
• Board : 18 administrators
• Scientific committee : 22 experts
• Delegates : 1 training delegate, 1 marketing delegate, 4 local delegates
• Standing Employees : 6
• ASPEC Members : 350 companies = about 850 adherents (researchers, teachers, fitters, users and suppliers)
 

• ASPEC Directory (list of members with technical support ; updated and printed every year)
 
• ASPEC Guidelines and recommended practices
 
• Training courses (indoor and outdoor training sessions)
 
• Scientific and technical information to ASPEC members (answers to technical questions about contamination)
 
• Visits of industrial sites and Technical meetings/symposiums concerning advancing technologies on contamination
 
• CONTAMINEXPO exhibition and CONTAMINEXPERT congress (every two years ; the next one will stand on 2011 in Paris)
 
• Commissions (Working groups before providing recommendations or guidelines)
 
• Commitment to national and international contamination control standardization (AFNOR, CEN, ISO)
 
• « Salle propres et maîtrise de la contamination » (Cleanrooms and Contamination control) magazine ; one issue every two months
 

- in english:
o Isolators Qualifications (2004)

- in french:
o Biocontamination - cleanrooms, controlled environments and safety zones (2008)
o Airlocks conception, construction and use for cleanrooms (2006)
o Maintenance in cleanliness of the ventilation ducts for cleanrooms and associated controlled environments (2004)
o Air treatment - cleanrooms, controlled environments and safety zones (2002)
o Installation of weighing stations and volume measuring deices in the pharmaceutical industry (2001)
o Clothes and garments for cleanrooms (2000)
o Environment assessment on potentially microbiologically contaminated areas (air, water, surfaces in hospitals (1999)
o Partitions for cleanrooms (1998)

• 236 trainees in 2008
• 15  annual training sessions for 2008
• Teached by experts from different activities
• Several sessions :
* General session : Introduction to contamination control
* Specific sessions : Safety laboratories, Potentially microbiologically contaminated areas, Air treatment qualifications, Cleanrooms metrology, etc…)
* Dedicated training : Pharmaceutical industry (Facilities and equipment qualifications)
 

• 30 days in 2008
• Different companies : FLAMEL, SAGEM, POLY IMPLANT PROTHESES, VIGON, RAKON...
• Microelectronic, Micromechanics, Pharmaceutical industry, Chemistry...
 

• Biocontamination in cleanrooms (10/2008)
• Consumables in cleanrooms (01/2008)
• Airlocks in cleanrooms (01/2006)
• Maintenance in cleanliness of the ventilation ducts (03/2004)
• Air ventilation for cleanrooms (10/2002)
• Isolators (03/2002)
• Weighing stations in the pharmaceutical industry (06/2001)
• Listeria in the food-processing industry (06/2000)
• Air, water and surface measurements in hospitals (09/1999)
• International standardization on contamination control (10/1998)
• Partitions for cleanrooms (02/1998)
• Clothes for cleanrooms (03/1994)

 

VIPARIS - Porte de Versailles – Paris - France
 
• CONTAMINEXPO Exhibition :
     130 exhibitors and 3000 visitors
 
• CONTAMINEXPERT Congress :
     150 attenders
 
• 1 Tutorial session:
Particular and molecular aerocontaminants: Properties and means to control them

• 4 Technical sessions:
Controlled airborne biocontamination: Specific biocleanroom
Water in the various fields of activities
The documentaries organization and control coming from the standardization of cleanrooms
Emergents contaminants : particular, molecular and biocontaminants

• 2 Workshops:
Metrology and physical measurements
Cleaning validation in cleanrooms

• 1 Discussion group:
Evolution of ISO 14 644-1 standard

Gathering of 3 working groups to establish recommended pratices on following subjects :
• Floors for cleanrooms
• Partitions, doors, for cleanrooms
• Clothes for cleanrooms (new edition)
 

Database of standards dealing with contamination and cleanrooms is up to date :
• National standards : AFNOR
• European standards : CEN
• International standards : ISO
 
A - International Working Groups - ISO TC 209
 
UK (BSI) 
• WG 1 : Airborne particulate cleanliness classes 
• WG 2 : Biocontamination
• WG 8 : Molecular contamination
 
USA (ANSI)
• WG 5 : Cleanroom operation
• WG 7 : Enhanced cleaning devices
• WG 10 : Nanotechnologies
 
Germany (DIN)
• WG 4 : Design & Construction
• WG 9 : Clean & Surfaces
 
Switzerland (SNV) 
• WG 6 : Terms, Definitions & Units
 
Japan (JISC)
• WG 3 : Metrology & Testing Methods
   
Commitments overview  ISO  standards under the general title « cleanrooms and associated controlled environments »
 
ISO 14 644 currently consists in the following parts :
• 14 644-1 : Classification of Air Cleanliness (1999)
• 14 644-2 : Specifications for testing & monitoring to prove continued compliance with ISO 14 644-1 (2000)
• 14 644-3 : Test methods (2006)
• 14 644-4 : Design, construction and start-up (2001)
• 14 644-5 : Cleanroom operations (2004)
• 14 644-6 : Terms & Definitions (2007)
• 14 644-7 : Separative devices (clean air hoods, gloveboxes, isolators and minienvironments) (2004)
• 14 644-8 : Classification of airborne molecular contamination (2006)
• 14 644-9 : Physical (particular) and chemical (molecular) cleanliness of surfaces (Draft)
• 14 644-10 : Chemicals cleanliness of surfaces
 
ISO 14 698 currently consists in the following parts :
• 14 698-1 : Biocontamination control - General Principles (2004)
• 14 698-2 : Biocontamination control - Evaluation & Interpretation of Biocontamination Data (2004)

 

• Founded in 1998 (Partnership between ASPEC and PYC Edition)
• 62 published issues - 6 per year
• Pyc Edition website : www.pyc.fr