Sterility Assurance

Central Sterile

How do you know if a product is sterile? In your highly scrutinized work, confidence in how you measure sterility is critical. Along with best practices, these products help assure you – and others – of a product’s sterility.

Benefits and Features

With Medline Sterility assurance products, you’ll find:

Unique products that yield detailed information about your equipment and process
Items to help maximize your storage space.

Our comprehensive selection includes advanced products for steam, ethylene oxide and plasma sterilization. Whether you’re performing automatic washer checks, biological tests or extended sterilization cycles, we have everything you need for sterility assurance.

Advanced Bowie Dick Steam Sterilizer Tests

More accurate, compact, and cost-effective than traditional Bowie Dick tests.

Test for both air leaks and wet steam content
Detect air leaks in a pre-vacuum steam sterilizer at 270°F (132°C) at a minimum 3.5-minute exposure
Distinctive color change is easy to read and not reversible
Lead-free

Steam Integrator Strips, Class 5

Measure the time, temperature and presence of steam in steam sterilizers.

Distinctive color change (from purple to green)
Plastic laminated

Smart Read Biological Monitoring System

With the Smart Read System, you get a confirmed result – not a prediction. It is 100 percent accurate, eliminating the chance for a false positive. If any spores survive, it provides documentation and sounds an alarm.

A true biological spore reading in 3-5 hours
Total RIT (reduced incubation time) 10 hours
Smart-Well® incubator automatically monitors the biological progress
Generates a status report and prints from integrated printer

How Smart Read Works

Remove the exposed Smart-Read indicator from the load
Place the indicator in the crushing cavity, which saturates the strip with purple growth media
Place the activated indicator in any of the ten chambers in the incubator

Bacterial spores of geobacillus stearothermophilus endure all the lethal conditions that occur during the cycle. The Smart-Well® incubator automatically monitors the biological progress. Then it generates a status report and printouts – from its fully integrated printer. This is done automatically, so there’ll never be a missed reading. Automatic record keeping eliminates manual work!

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