Isolator Cleaning Guide

Texwipe is the worldwide leader in contamination control supplies and critical cleaning products including cleanroom wipers, cleanroom swabs, cleanroom stationery, sterile products, adhesive mats, and more. We help our clients to get the right information for their cleaning process, it is why we create training material for all the users that need it. Here you have a cleaning guide for isolator. 

Preparation for Cleaning:

1. Wipe down gloved hands and cleaning products with wipers prewetted with 70% IPA and place the products in the pass-through.

2. Close the pass-through. Wait the prescribed amount of time for the pass-through to reach equilibrium.

3. Wipe gloved hands with 70% IPA; place gloved hands into the isolator gloves.

4. Open the interior door to the pass-through and bring all components into the isolator interior. Close the pass-through door. Wait the prescribed amount of time for the isolator to reach equilibrium.

Cleaning the isolator:

For surfaces not within arm’s reach, use the Isolator Cleaning Tool and mop cover moistened with IPA (Fig. 1).

For surfaces within arm’s reach, use a quarter folded wiper (Fig. 2) wetted with IPA (or use a pre-wetted wiper).

1. Begin by wiping the top surface (‘ceiling’) with care so as not to damage the filter, then proceed to the back wall, then the sidewalls, and finish with the deck (Fig. 1).

2. Work from high to low, clean to dirty, dry to wet.

3. Wipe in straight, parallel, overlapping strokes (Figs. 1 and 2).

4. Change wiper surfaces with each stroke, and mop covers as needed.

5. Use IPA moistened swabs to clean the corners and small, tight areas.

6. Place the used, soiled wipers, swabs, and mop covers in a disposal bag or place through the disposal port (if applicable).

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