Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
The industry needs to realize that adopting disposal processing systems
would improve their profit margins: there is money to be made by switching.
Only then would disposable technology finds its rightful place, and all other
criticisms, ranging from accusations that it is environment unfriendly to it
being impractical, would disappear.
So, for the sake of posterity, here are some predictions for the future of
disposable bioprocessing.
Large Scale
The industry used to 10,000 to 100,000 L multistory fermenters is highly sus-
picious of the scalability of manufacturing using smaller-size disposable bio-
reactors. The criticism is well-founded, except there is really no need to have
those behemoth reactors in the first place. The cell lines of yore produced
