Product category:
Gas handling
News Release from: Millipore | Subject: M Air T
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 21 August 2003
Accelerated microbial monitoring in
production
System is designed to accurately and rapidly monitor the microbial quality of air in aseptic manufacturing environments
Millipore M Air T system is designed to accurately and rapidly monitor the microbial quality of air in aseptic manufacturing environments The production environment is one of the main potential sources of contamination and requires appropriate testing systems and procedures for final product sterility assurance
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 3 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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While most environmental monitoring systems often require separate flow meters, Millipore's M Air T system samples exactly the volume required.
This minimises the contamination risk regularly found with the use of supplementary equipment.
In addition, the tester's memory allows operators to easily create and store air flow parameters, set run-time and specify criteria for multi-cycle operation.
The pre-sterilised M Air T agar cassettes used with M Air T are packaged double-wrapped, and tested to ensure accurate results, while allowing easy handling.
The cassettes are designed with a large agar supply to prevent desiccation of the medium and with an integrated grid for easy colony counting.
M Air T air tester is especially designed for clean rooms and is small enough to be used in confined spaces.
As in-process microbiological controls have become increasingly important, Millipore has extended M Air T system's fields of applications.
M Air T isolator brings the convenience and performance of the M Air T concept to barrier environments and isolators.
M Air T compressed gas and air sampling is designed to accurately monitor the microbial quality of compressed gas and air lines in aseptic manufacturing environments.
As a result, the typical applications of the M Air T systems are to determine microbiological quality of laminar flow hoods, assess contamination procedures in pharmaceutical plants, evaluate airborne contamination in food and beverage production environments, detect airborne pathogenic microorganisms in critical patient areas, and differentiate between particulate and microbial contamination in clean rooms and isolator environments.
Beyond the obvious advantages of fast setup and sampling, the key benefits of Millipore M Air T systems are convenience, easy counting, programming and low maintenance. Request a free brochure from Millipore ...
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