A New Impact for Microbiological Air Monitoring
As regulations become more stringent, the microbial monitoring of ambient air is increasing importance in today's world. For example, microorganisms can have a major impact on product quality and the production process, and can even pose health hazards.
Air quality plays a key role in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and food and beverage industries, in hospitals and in the field of occupational and environmental protection.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech has developed a new system for sampling airborne microorganisms that allows impaction onto culture media plates, where the plates function directly as collection heads. This means that the collection properties are integrated right into the culture media plates. Metal sieve plates or metal collection heads with slots, which have to be sterilized for routine samplings on a regular basis, are eliminated. Now, non-sterile sieves or slots have become a thing of the past.
The geometry of the culture medium plate and the 400 holes in the sieve plate yield exceptional sampling efficiency, which is generally higher than that of other impaction samplers.
