Recently, the National Standards Committee issued GB/T 2915.1-2021 "Clean Rooms and Related Controlled Environments-1: Air Cleanliness Levels", which is modified to adopt IOS 14644-1:2015 "Clean Rooms and Related Controlled Environments Part 1: Classification of Air Cleanliness Levels by Particle Concentration", which will replace GB/T 25915.1-2010 "Cleanrooms and Related Controlled Environments Part 1: Air Cleanliness", which will be implemented on March 1, 2022.
The main parameter requirements of the new GMP cleanliness level A, B, C, D
As shown in the table below:
Class A clean area |
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Air temperature |
20℃~24℃ |
Relative humidity of the air |
45%~60% |
wind velocity |
The horizontal wind speed ≥ 0.54m/s, and the vertical wind speed ≥ 0.36m/s |
High-efficiency filter leak detection |
>99.97% |
illuminance |
>300lx - 600lx |
noises |
≤75dB (dynamic test) |
Class B clean area |
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Air temperature |
20℃~24℃ |
Relative humidity of the air |
45%~60% |
Number of room ventilations |
≥ 25 times/h |
Differential pressure |
The B-level area is ≥ 10Pa relative to the outdoors, and different areas of the same level should be consistent according to the airflow direction |
High-efficiency filter leak detection |
>99.97% |
illuminance |
>300lx - 600lx |
noises |
≤75dB (dynamic test) |
Class C clean area |
|
Air temperature |
20℃~24℃ |
Relative humidity of the air |
45%~60% |
Number of room ventilations |
≥ 25 times/h |
Differential pressure |
The C-level area is ≥ 10Pa relative to the outdoors, and different areas of the same level should be consistent according to the airflow direction |
High-efficiency filter leak detection |
>99.97% |
illuminance |
>300lx - 600lx |
noises |
≤75dB (dynamic test) |
Class D clean area |
|
Air temperature |
18℃~26℃ |
Relative humidity of the air |
45%~60% |
Number of room ventilations |
≥ 15 times/h |
Differential pressure |
The 100.000-class area is ≥ 10Pa relative to the outdoors |
High-efficiency filter leak detection |
>99.97% |
illuminance |
>300lx - 600lx |
noises |
≤75dB (dynamic test) |
The standard provisions for each level of airborne particulates in the clean area are:
Cleanliness level |
Maximum allowable number of suspended particles/m³ |
Approximate correspondence Traditional specifications |
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Static |
dynamic |
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≥0.5μm |
≥5μm |
≥0.5μm |
≥5μm |
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Grade A |
3520 |
20 |
3520 |
20 |
Level 100 |
Class B |
3520 |
29 |
352000 |
2900 |
Level 100 |
Class C |
352000 |
2900 |
3520000 |
29000 |
10000 levels |
Class D |
3520000 |
29000 |
No prescripts |
No prescripts |
100,000 levels |
Air Cleanliness Standard (GMP-97) for Pharmaceutical Production Cleanrooms (Zones) in China:
Cleanliness level Clean class |
Maximum allowable number of dust / ≥ number of dust particles of 0.5 μm |
≥ 5 μm dust particles |
Maximum allowable number of microorganisms Plankton/cubic meter |
Sedimentation bacteria/dish |
Level 100 |
3500 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
10000 levels |
350000 |
2000 |
100 |
3 |
100,000 levels |
3500000 |
20000 |
500 |
10 |
300,000 levels |
10500000 |
61800 |
1000 |
15 |
Chinese National Standard GB50073-2001 (equivalent to international standard ISO14644-1)
Air Cleanliness Class (N) |
Greater than or equal to the maximum concentration limit of particle size in the table (pc/m3) |
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0.1μm |
0.2μm |
0.3μm |
0.5μm |
1.0μm |
5.0μm |
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ISO Class 1 |
10 |
2 |
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ISO Class 2 |
100 |
24 |
10 |
4 |
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ISO Class 3 |
1000 |
237 |
102 |
35 |
8 |
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ISO Class 4 |
10000 |
2370 |
1020 |
352 |
83 |
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ISO Class 5 |
100000 |
23700 |
10200 |
3520 |
832 |
29 |
ISO Class 6 |
1000000 |
237000 |
102000 |
35200 |
8320 |
293 |
ISO Class 7 |
352000 |
83200 |
2930 |
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ISO Class 8 |
3520000 |
832000 |
29300 |
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ISO Class 9 |
35200000 |
8320000 |
293000 |
Cleanroom testing items
serial number |
project |
request |
1 |
Wind speed of the cross-section of the indoor work area (or specified height). |
One-way flow must be inspected |
2 |
Supply air volume |
Non-one-way flow must be checked |
3 |
Airflow pattern |
It must be inspected when required by the industry |
4 |
Differential static pressure |
Must be checked |
5 |
Fresh air volume |
Must be checked |
6 |
Leak detection of high-efficiency and ultra-high-efficiency filters |
Class 5 or stricter than Class 5 cleanrooms and cleanrooms with industry requirements must be inspected |
7 |
Exhaust air high-efficiency filter leak detection |
Must be checked |
8 |
Cleanliness level |
Must be checked |
9 |
temperature |
It must be inspected when there is a requirement for a constant temperature and humidity environment |
10 |
relative humidity |
It must be inspected when there is a requirement for a constant temperature and humidity environment |
11 |
noise |
Must be checked |
12 |
Planktonic or sedimentary bacteria |
Cleanrooms with microbial limit parameters must be inspected |
13 |
illuminance |
It must be inspected when required by the industry |
14 |
electrostatics |
It must be inspected when required by the industry |
15 |
Anti-micro-vibration |
It must be inspected when required by the industry |
16 |
Concentration of airborne molecular pollutants |
It must be inspected when required by the industry |
17 |
Tightness of the envelope structure |
Detect as needed |
Before the cleanroom test, the tested environment should be thoroughly cleaned. The test items should first measure the wind speed, air volume, air flow pattern, and static pressure difference, and then the filter leak detection, and then measure the cleanliness level.
For biological clean rooms, the microbial limit should be detected after the completion of the required inspection items such as cleanliness level and surface disinfection, and air disinfection should not be carried out before the microbial limit is detected.
The content and requirements of performance parameter monitoring in clean rooms
Monitoring projects |
Maximum time interval |
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Air cleanliness standards |
Pharmaceutical industry |
A |
Continuous online monitoring |
B |
3 months |
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C、D |
6 months |
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Other industries |
≤3 |
Contact Online Monitoring |
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3< cleanliness ≤ 5 |
6 months |
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>5 |
12 months |
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Environmental Microbiological Standards |
Pharmaceutical industry |
A、B |
per batch |
C |
weekly |
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D |
6 months |
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Wind speed and volume |
12 months |
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Differential static pressure |
1 month |
Note: The air cleanliness level is generally tested under dynamic conditions, and the current Xiaocao clean environment intelligent expert system can evaluate the clean environment according to the three perspectives of static environment, dynamic environment and sterilization environment.
In recent years, Xiaocao Group has actively built an intelligent expert system for Xiaocao's clean environment, and implemented all-round and whole-process digital and information-based supervision of environmental monitoring. The system is developed according to the latest standard of "Clean Room and Related Controlled Environment" GB25915-2022 issued by the National Standards Committee, relying on cloud big data for decision-making analysis, with artificial intelligence algorithms and expert system ideas as the core for overall design, and using ARM architecture in hardware to provide quantitative analysis for various management roles such as "environmental monitoring of edible fungi", filling the gap of current environmental intelligent monitoring.
Grass clean environment intelligence experts evaluate cleanliness standards |
(1) Six kinds of particles can be evaluated according to international standards (ISO), pharmaceutical production standards, and Chinese national standards; |
(2) Through different warning light colors to show what level the current purification level belongs to; |
(3) Evaluate the clean environment from the three perspectives of static environment, dynamic environment and sterilization environment; |
(4) Conduct independent assessment of the microbial environment of aseptic production, predict the risk of infection in advance, and avoid adverse effects caused by unclean environment. |
At present, the system standardizes the number of sampling points, area, particle sampling time, sampling volume and sampling sensor in the clean room, and the environmental parameters that can be sampled are: national standard PM1.0, national standard PM2.5, national standard PM10, American standard PM1.0, American standard PM2.5, American standard PM10, total suspended particulate matter (TSP) μm0.3, total suspended particulate matter (TSP) μm0.5, total suspended particulate matter (TSP) μm1.0, Total suspended particulate matter (TSP) μm2.5, total suspended particulate matter (TSP) μm5, total suspended particulate matter (TSP) μm10, fresh air outlet, air supply outlet, return air outlet, exhaust air outlet, wind speed, air volume, laminar flow Reynolds number Re=pvd/g, static pressure difference between clean area and non-clean area, pressure difference between clean area and clean area, ozone concentration, ultraviolet intensity and other data. Through the establishment of mathematical models in different production and processing environments to carry out the comprehensive scheduling and intelligent control of sterilization equipment, in the actual control process of continuous effect evaluation, through the convolutional neural network algorithm (CNN) and reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to continuously optimize the control model, to achieve the purpose of accurate, economical and efficient purification and sterilization environment control.