Sterilization Mail-In Monitoring Service Duo-Spore® Steam / EO Gas / Dry Heat / Chemical Vapor 48 Hour Processing Time

Features

• A convenient way to monitor sterilizers in Physician, Dental and Veterinary Offices, as well as Tattoo and Body Modification Parlors: just expose the test strips in your sterilizer and mail them in the included prepaid envelope
• Results will be mailed upon completion of the incubation period and kept on file in our laboratory (Proppers)
• Positive results are reported immediately
• 1 Test Envelope (2 test strips and 1 control strip) with Culture Service
• Duo-Spore is a dual-species biological indicator used for the direct monitoring of steam, ethylene oxide and dry heat sterilization
• For Steam cycles, Geobacillus stearothermophilus growth will be observed as sediment, and a color change from red to yellow if Propper Culture Media is used
• For Ethylene Oxide and Dry Heat cycles, Bacillus atrophaeus growth will be evident as an orange pigmented pellicle, and a color change to yellow/orange if Propper Culture Media is used