If you were validating clean hold on a peice of equipment. How can you do this post sterilization for different time points? For example as soon as you expose a treated area to air of a lower grade, you introduce potential contamination - thinking microbial here. You cant really then seal the equipment location up again and sample afer another week for example. As soon as you break sterility to sample you would have to repeat the whole exercise. Lets say you wanted to validare 2 week clean hold. If you sampled 1 week, you break sterility.