Radiopharmaceuticals are defined as pharmaceutical preparations containing a radionuclide in their composition, mostly intravenously administered, and therefore compliance with the principles of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is essential and indispensable. Cleaning validation is a requirement of the current GMP, and consists of documented evidence, which demonstrates that the cleaning procedures are able to remove residues to predetermined acceptance levels, ensuring that no cross contamination occurs. A simplification of cleaning processes validation is accepted, and consists in choosing a product, called "worst case", to represent the cleaning processes of all equipment of the same production area. One of the steps of cleaning validation is the establishment and validation of the analytical method to quantify the residue. The aim of this study was to establish the worst case for cleaning validation of equipment in the radiopharmaceutical production of lyophilized reagent (LR) for labeling with 99m Tc, evaluate the use of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) content as indicator of equipment cleaning used in the LR manufacture, validate the method of Non-Purgeable Organic Carbon (NPOC), and perform recovery tests with the product chosen as worst case.Worst case product's choice was based on the calculation of an index called "Worst Case Index" (WCI), using information about drug solubility, difficulty of cleaning the equipment and occupancy rate of the products in line production. The products indicated as "worst case" was the LR MIBI-TEC. The method validation assays were performed using carbon analyser model TOC-Vwp coupled to an autosampler model ASI-V, both from Shimadzu ® , controlled by TOC Control-V software. It was used the direct method for NPOC quantification. The parameters evaluated in the validation method were: system suitability, robustness, linearity, detection limit (DL) and quantification limit (QL), precision (repeatability and intermediate precision), and accuracy (recovery) and they were defined as follows: 4% acidifying reagent, 2.5 ml oxidizing reagent, 4.5 minutes integration curve time, 3 minutes sparge time and linearity in 40-1000 µgL-1 range, with correlation coefficient (r) and residual sum of minimum squares (r 2) greater than 0.99 respectively. DL and QL for NPOC were 14.25 ppb e 47.52 ppb respectively, repeatability between 0.11 and 4.47%; the intermediate precision between 0.59 and 3.80% and accuracy between 97.05 and 102.90%. The analytical curve for Mibi was linear in 100-800 µgL-1 range with r and r 2 greater than 0.99, presenting similar parameters to NPOC analytical curves. The results obtained in this study demonstrated that the worst-case approach to cleaning validation is a simple and effective way to reduce the complexity and slowness of the validation process, and provide a costs reduction involved in these activities. All results obtained in NPOC method validation assays met the requirements and specifications recommended by the RE 899/2003 Resolution from ANVISA to conside...