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Abhishek Dharm Singh Popular answer

Few methods have been described in the following article related to your work.

A Short Term Quality Control Tool for Biodegradable Microspheres by D'Souza et al., 2014.

Abhishek Dharm Singh

Stan Conston

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately that article does not cover microbiological/bioburden testing methods.