Single-use glycerol stocks make it easier for industrial and pharmaceutical labs to test for product safety. The ATCC Minis allow lab staff to validate their QC work quickly and efficiently without the risk of cross-contamination during banking techniques.
Healthcare, personal care product, and cosmetic manufacturers are required to test the bio-burden and sterility of their products and production environments to ensure consumer safety. Global alignment and harmonization of microbial testing requirements among the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), Japanese Pharmacopeia (JP), and European Pharmacopeia (EP), have resulted in the need for consistent and reliable control organisms at less than five passages from the ATCC reference stock for reproducible results.
Many laboratories spend considerable time and resources creating cryopreserved stocks from ATCC organisms. These strains are now available in a ready to use mini-cryovial format to meet customers’ requirements. Each is provided as a six-pack of ready-to-use QC strains preserved in glass-free mini cryovials containing glycerol stock. Each tube has a 2D barcode to allow for easy storage and tracking, and offers a peel-off label for fast and reliable recordkeeping.
Currently the top 12 strains used in QC testing are available, including those that support test methods for non-sterile products, such as USP 61 and USP 62: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida albicans, Aspergillus brasiliensis, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Enterococcus faecalis.
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