DEFINITIONS & HISTORY: CLEANROOM ORIGINS

Looking back from the present day, Federal and International definitions of cleanrooms reveal that the origins of these standards reach back over 100 years.

Based on the works of early microbiologists and surgeons as they fought wound infections, medical pioneers such as Pasteur, Koch and Lister (among others), established the impact of bacteria on these wounds, and subsequently began taking the first preventative measures to reduce them.

Photos of Joseph Lister (1827-1912), Robert Koch (1843-1910), Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
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