Environmental Monitoring as a Falsifiable Story: Trending, Investigation, and the Illusion of Control

Environmental monitoring (EM) is not a hygiene check. It is a story we tell ourselves about whether our contamination control strategy actually works. On paper, EM is straightforward: pick locations, define limits, collect samples, trend the data, investigate excursions. In practice, it sits at the messy intersection of microbiology, human behavior, facility design,…

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Environmental Monitoring as a Falsifiable Story: Trending, Investigation, and the Illusion of Control

Environmental monitoring (EM) is not a hygiene check. It is a story we tell ourselves about whether our contamination control strategy actually works. On paper, EM is straightforward: pick location…

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