​​Under the scope of the clean-up validation program, LEF can now assist in the development and validation of methods for determining API, detergent and microbiological contamination residues after the acquisition of a Total Organic Carbon (TOC) determination equipment, which allows analysing aqueous samples, water and cleaning validation, through the quantification of carbon.

​​​​LEF received, for the third consecutive year, the Best Poster Award at RACI 2019, the Annual Meeting of the College of Industry, an event organized by the Pharmacists' Association, which took place in Batalha in early April. The po​ster​ ​has the theme "The Role of Kaizen in the Operational Efficiency of the Pharmaceutical Industry" and was prepared by Sara Figueiredo, Ana Brízio and Fátima Carvalho.

​As part of its Cycle of Conferences, LEF promoted the Cleaning Validation - Case Studies Conference on 12 November, which was developed to provide a deeper understanding of the regulatory changes introduced by the European Agency on 2014 for the multi-product facility cleaning validation program. This conference was targeted at all the R&D, Production, Quality Control and Quality Assurance professionals involved in Cleaning Validation.