Parenterals & Injectables

Biography

Edward C Tidswell, BSc, PhD - Dr. Tidswell is a Quality Director for Baxter Healthcare; located north of Chicago, IL (USA). Within his role he supports more than 40 facilities setting strategy and tactical activities across the entire breadth of microbiological control, cleanroom control and sterility assurance. More specifically assuring process and product control through implementation of new systems-based process for sterile and aseptic manufacture for parenterals and medical devices. He has worked within bulk active pharmaceutical ingredient, vaccine and parenteral manufacturing operations for human health and animal health products in both technical and validation roles for the likes of Eli Lilly and Evans Vaccines. Dr Tidswell continues to actively publish and is a leading authority on risk, aseptic and sterile manufacture. In 2004 he received the Parenteral Society’s George Sykes Memorial Award for his contribution to pharmaceutical risk assessment. As a microbial physiologist Dr Tidswell retains an active interest in several areas of microbiology, which include: bacterial adhesion, quorum sensing, viability, anaerobes, and rapid microbial technologies. From 1995-2010 he has served on the Editorial Boards of Letters in Applied Microbiology and The Journal of Applied Microbiology. In June 2010 Dr Tidswell joined the USP expert committee on Microbiology & Sterility Assurance. In 2013 Dr Tidswell joined the PDA’s Science Advisory Board.

Abstract

Abstract : Global implementation of system-based microbial control for parenteral manufacture