Biomerieux is offering two culture media for media fill tests (MFT): TSB 3PTM with Animal Peptones and TSB 3PTM with Vegetable Peptones.
Media fill tests verify the sterility of production processes.
They simulate the normal manufacturing conditions by replacing the product with culture media.
Several thousand containers filled with this culture media for each MFT should be checked manually, which is time-consuming and can be a source of errors.
Biomerieux's two new dehydrated culture media for MFT address these problems.
Both media are TSE-free to prevent any risk of transmitting animal spongiform encephalopathy.
The TSB 3P with Vegetable Peptones features a colour indicator that changes from pink to yellow if a bacterial contaminant is present.
This visual indicator simplifies the interpretation of the test result and reduces the possibility of errors.
The vegetable peptones suit pharmaceutical companies that have animal-free production processes.
These new MFT products complement Biomerieux's BacT/ALERT, its automated solution for in-process sterility control.
The TSB 3P range complies with the requirements of American, Japanese and European pharmacopoeias for the growth of non-fastidious micro-organisms (bacteria, yeasts, fungi and certain anaerobic bacteria).
Both formulations are cold-filterable to avoid any warming step to dissolve the dehydrated medium and are gamma irradiated to remove viable microorganisms and mycoplasma.
