Environmental Indices for Therapeutic Protein Manufacture

Some of the main observations gleaned from the analysis regarding environmental characteristics of biologies manufacture are  

1) A very large amount of water is used in the manufacturing process. 

2) Significantly more water is used in supporting operations, such as generation of WFI, equipment cleaning and sterilization, wastes processing, and facility maintenance. 

3) Large amounts of common salts such as NaCl and acids/bases are used in processing, which all end up as salts in the aqueous waste discharge. 

4) Although the volume of liquid wastes generated is very high, the wastes are mostly aqueous and innocuous. 

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