Scale Up: Using Penicillin As an Example

Synopsis: As demand for penicillin has increased over the last half century, it has become necessary to look for ways to produce it in increasingly large quantities. Looks at how penicillin works and how, in the laboratory and pilot plant, new penicillium strains are identifitied. Shows the scaling up process from laboratory to industrial plant, how penicillin is extracted and how contamination is monitored and controlled in the production process. Filmed at Synpac Pharmaceuticals Ltd in Northumberland and Aston University in Birmingham.
Series: Shotlist, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1997
Notes: Reviewed by Sally Wilks in ‘Journal of Biological Education’ Vol 32, No 1 (Spring 1998), p79.
Uses: Introductory biology, microbiology, biotechnoogy and chemical engineering.
Subjects: Biology
Keywords: microbiology; penicillin; pharmaceutical industry

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