Air Trace® Environmental Slit-to-Agar Sampler0 pages

Air Trace

Environmental Air Sampler

BENEFITS

 Highly effective slit-to-agar capture method, a trusted and tested technology

Օ Larger surface area (150 mm plate) for more statistically accurate results

 Ability to pinpoint and isolate exact moment of contamination due to precision controlled plate rotation

Օ Third-party validated by the Center for Applied Microbiology and Research (CAMR) to meet ISO 14698-1: Biocontamination Control of Cleanrooms and Associated Controlled Environments

 Compliant with cGMP and GAMP® regulatory requirements

Օ 1.0 CFM (28.3 LPM) airflow is regulated for optimum flow rate during sampling enabling 1 m3 sample volume in 35 minutes, 20 seconds

HEPA filtered exhaust prevents contamination of the cleanroom or clean zone

Automated plate height adjustment and control during sampling process

User-adjustable plate rotation speed and plate exposure

■ Direct replacement for older interchangeable drive-motor

slit-to-agar impact samplers

Easy data download via RS232 serial printer (optional) APPLICATIONS

 Pharmaceutical cleanroom monitoring for presence of

microorganisms

■ Monitoring of aseptic filling areas, laminar flow workstations, and isolators (with optional remote probe

assembly)

Օ Compressed gases monitoring (with Air Trace Compressed Gas version)

 Microbiological monitoring of surgical suites or operating rooms

The Air Trace® Environmental Air Sampler is a state of the art slit-to-agar microbial air sampler. The sampler rotates a 150mm agar plate 360° while maintaining the agar plate at a fixed distance from a precision cut slit. This is a critical feature to ensure maximum validated recovery of impacted organisms on the agar surface. After incubating the plate, growth on the medium can be interpreted to exactly when the contamination occurred during sampling, enabling the operator to pinpoint a particular event during a process or procedure that may have raised the bio-burden to above acceptable limits. The user sets the rotation speed of the agar plate, as well as the percentage of the plate area exposed, thus ensuring the flexibility to monitor virtually any process for biocontamination.

The airflow through the instrument is automatically controlled at 1CFM (28.3 LPM). The built-in software automatically stores user ID and unique location information for each run, and an RS232 serial printer can be used to download data. A specially-designed version of the instrument, the Air Trace Compressed Gas, is available for the monitoring of compressed gases.