This was repurposed into a LinkedIn article as part of my Developing My Writing While Helping Others series.

What Is Viable Environmental Monitoring (VEM)?

Viable Environmental Monitoring (VEM) is the monitoring of factors within a production environment that may have an impact on the quality of goods produced within the environment. Typically this is any physical object than could support or introduce microbial contamination to a manufacturing environment: air, gases, surfaces (both on introduced objects and within the production room), liquids and people.  This discussion does not extend to Environmental Monitoring such as particle counting, temperature, pressure differentials, etc. Continue reading →