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In industry we must make sure that even insoluble substance are cleaned or more specifically removed from the surface so that traces of the substance shall not move from one product to another.
Also it a regulatory requirement to perform cleaning validation.
In pharmaceutical industry we need to be sure that traces of previous products don't contaminate the next products. Thus we have to perform the cleaning validation to be sure that even invisible particles were removed for the product that is more prone to microbial contamination, insoluble or very hard to clean.