Detecting Surface Contamination Through Swab Analysis

An important quality component for many manufacturing industries is to routinely decontaminate surfaces and equipment, and then monitor the decontamination process using surface swabs. This swab analysis procedure is applied in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, personal care, and other major industries. A reliable, fast detection method for the swabs is necessary to keep production moving.

Key Benefits:

• The Micro PRO™ provides reliable and quantitative results in just 4 minutes; it also saves a significant amount of technician labor.
• The Micro PRO™ detects microbial contamination as well as residual product in surface swab samples.
• The Micro PRO™ is fully automated. Up to 42 samples can be loaded at one time and the system automatically performs reagent additions, mixing, and sample injection.
• The system provides results that trend closely with traditional plating methods.
• A broad spectrum of technical and validation support services are also available.

Swab Control (Negative) E. coli Swab

The above data shows both control and E. coli spiked results from a surface swab analysis. The swab is placed into a tube containing buffer and vortexed to release sample species prior to analysis on the Micro PRO™ system.

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