Biography:
Destin LeBlanc has over thirty-five years of Technical Service and Product Development experience in specialty chemicals and medical technologies, the last twenty-five of which have been involved with various aspects of cleaning and cleaning validation in pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing.
Destin LeBlanc consults in the area of cleaning validation as Cleaning Validation Technologies. Previously, he had been with STERIS/Calgon Vestal for over twenty years, primarily in product development and technical service for cleaning and antimicrobial applications. He has lectured on issues related to contamination control internationally and has written widely on cleaning validation issues. He is the author of five on cleaning validation.
He maintains the website www.cleaningvalidation.com as a resource for cleaning validation professionals. He is a member of PDA and ISPE and regularly trains FDA personnel on cleaning validation. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. In 2009 he led a PDA task force to prepare a technical report entitled “Points to Consider for Biotechnology Cleaning Validation”.
Since 1990, he has specialized in pharmaceutical cleaning validation and has written and lectured internationally on cleaning validation, both as part of technical symposia as well as on-site company training. He has worked with both large and small pharmaceutical companies on various aspects of cleaning and cleaning validation. He brings a unique perspective because of his expertise in the effective design of cleaning processes as well as validation of those processes.
In 2009 he led a PDA task force to prepare a technical report entitled “Points to Consider for Biotechnology Cleaning Validation”.
