Safety is a big issue in today’s industries. It is a time issue, a cost issue and most importantly it is a risk issue. What’s required to cover all these issues is a vision for a safer future.
That’s why we offer you a complete solution to help you stay on the safe side: with high-quality products, with excellent service, and with professional expertise, Merck provides more safety than meets the eye.
If we have a closer look: most contaminants are invisible to the naked eye. Although single micro-organisms (as well as those carried on particles) are fairly small, they pose a severe threat to the safety of products and brands: every year, several hundred products have to be recalled, resulting in financial and image losses.
At Merck, we believe that the solution to this problem is not only simple but also cost-efficient: with our complete portfolio for environmental monitoring, covering particle counting, active and passive air monitoring as well as surface and personnel monitoring solutions.
The relatively low costs of monitoring result in improved quality and increased safety – and in the reduction of overall expenses.
To keep expenses low in the long term, Merck offers a comprehensive range of high-quality monitoring and testing solutions that help you keep your facilities safe,from less critical to highly critical clean rooms and isolators.
With our monitoring solutions you can conveniently check surfaces, equipment, and air quality for contaminants – getting answers rapidly and reliably.
Since our products have been developed in close cooperation with users and authorities, they are tailored to the customers’ needs and follow international guidelines for critical and controlled environments, such as EU cGMP, USP, or FDA Aseptic Guidance. What’s more: as a one-stop supplier, we also offer a wide range of services, including IQ/OQ&maintenance, calibration, product validation, and application.
Active Air Monitoring Solutions
As regulations and standards for pharmaceutical products are increasing, the need for effective air sampling methods is on the rise too. After all, the quality of production environments is directly linked to the finished products’ quality. That’s why customers demand highly precise and reliable active air sampling solutions.
With active air monitoring products by Merck you can be sure of getting the most accurate sample solutions available. Our easy to use monitoring systems fully comply with all international standards and regulations–ensuring reproducible and reliable results.
MAS-100 series microbial air monitoring systems provide the most accurate sample solutions available for reliable, exact results:
MAS-100 NT®: For clean rooms and sterile environments.
MAS-100 CG Ex®: For testing of compressed air and gases.
Passive Air Monitoring Solutions
Passive viable air monitoring with the help of settle plates is a useful complement to active air sampling methods. Settle plates allow for a semi-quantitative determination of microbial contaminations in the air.
They are also suitable for personnel monitoring (e.g. gloves). And that’s not all: settle plates are easy to use, efficient, and enable continuous monitoring during production processes. Since they are fairly small, they can also be used conveniently in confined spaces.
Passive air sampling solutions by Merck are perfectly tailored to the requirements of different applications. Our triple-bagged and gamma-irradiated ICR Settle Plates are designed for the use in critical clean rooms and isolators.
For less critical clean rooms and other controlled environments, we offer single-bagged LI Settle Plates. All of our products have one thing in common: they meet all international standards and regulations, including EU cGMP, FDA Aseptic Guide, and USP 34 <1116>.
ICR Settle Plates: For isolators and critical clean rooms, gamma-irradiated and H2O2-impermeable triple-sleeve packaging.
LI Settle Plates: For less critical clean rooms, single pack.
Personnel and Surface Monitoring Solutions
The health and pharmaceutical industry takes a lot of measures to keep production plants clean and minimize the risk of contamination. A crucial tool to monitor the efficiency of these measures is the sampling of surfaces and personnel – with proven methods like easy to use contact plates, contact slides, or swabs.
Merck offers a wide range of swabs and contact plates adapted to clean room requirements and different surface types. For highly critical areas such as clean rooms (ISO 5) or isolators, we provide triple-bagged, gamma-irradiated ICR and ICRplus Contact Plates and Contact Slides.
They are ideally complemented by our ICR Swabs for difficult- to-access locations like tubing or filling needles. The safe choice for less critical environments are our single-bagged, non-irradiated RT and RTplus Contact Plates and Slides.
Since every country has its own standards, our surface and personnel monitoring solutions meet them all to keep your products safe worldwide.
ICR and ICRplus Contact Plates: For
isolators and critical clean rooms.
RT and RTplus Contact Plates: For less
critical clean rooms.
ICR Swabs: For isolators
and critical clean rooms.
HYCON® Contact Slides: For flat
and curved surfaces.
Özlem Şahin
Field Marketing Manager
Life Science, Biomonitoring
Merck İlaç Ecza ve Kimya Tic. A.Ş.
