Viral Clearance Studies

For all stages throughout the development, manufacturing and release of your biological product, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories offers comprehensive, fully cGMP-compliant Viral Clearance Services.

Why Choose Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories?

• All of our assays are fully validated to meet ICH Q2 requirements.
• We have multiple dedicated clearance suites for extensive capacity and timely execution and reporting of your study results.
• With more than 50 years of collective viral clearance experience, our technical team has vast industry knowledge and experience performing viral clearance studies.

Viral Clearance Services

Our scientists design and run viral clearance studies to meet regulatory requirements. Our viral clearance offerings include:

• Variety of validated and well characterized viral stocks to support animal and human-derived products
• Purified virus stocks
• Viral stocks with titers of 10⁷ pfu/ml or greater
• Validated qPCR assays
• Infectivity assays performed real-time
• Large Volume Assays
• Ongoing Regulatory Support Upon Study Completion
• Cleaning Validation Studies designed to quantify the elimination of viruses during the cleaning procedures used at your manufacturing facility

Facilities and Equipment

• Multiple HEPA-filtered virus clearance labs
• Multiple AKTA chromatography systems
• Manual chromatography equipment available
• Capacity to accommodate studies with minimal delay

Four Viral Clearance Models

Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories offers several service models for the performance of viral clearance studies:

• Level 1 – Basic Service: The client provides all materials and down-scale procedures and performs the study in Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories’ viral clearance suites.
• Level 2 – Enhanced Service: The client provides all materials and down-scale procedures and performs all column chromatography steps. Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories personnel perform inactivation and virus removal filtration steps.
• Level 3 – Full Service: The client provides all materials and down-scale procedures for transfer to Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories personnel, who perform all clearance steps.
• Level 4 – Turnkey Service: The client provides a description of the full-scale manufacturing process. Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories personnel develop and validate the down-scale procedures and perform all clearance steps.