Excelsior biological indicators provide a convenient, easy-to-use system for the reliable evaluation of your sterilisation processes including Steam, Ethylene Oxide, Radiation, Hydrogen Peroxide and Dry Heat.
- Spore strips, discs and threads
- Spore suspensions
- Spore Ampoules
- Self-Contained Biological Indicators (SCBIs)
Excelsior can manufacture custom Biological Indicators using a variety of carriers in combination with any organism. Please enquire to obtain additional information about Excelsior’s capabilities to manufacture a custom indicator.
These colour-change indicators are manufactured using water-based, environmentally friendly, heavy metal free ink formulations.
Brilliant colour transitions allow for end users to easily note when product has been exposed to a sterilisation process. Excelsior offers a variety of standard configurations as well as customised indicator labels in a variety of sizes and shapes to meet your specifications.
Chemical Process Indicators are available for monitoring Steam, Ethylene Oxide, Radiation, Hydrogen peroxide, Dry Heat, Steam-Formaldehyde and Chemiclave sterilization processes.
- Chemical Process Indicators (dots)
- Custom Indicator Labels (labels, strips and ribbon)
- Sterilization Monitoring Inks (for Flexographic, gravure and silk screen printing processes)
Excelsior offers Bowie & Dick Test packs for monitoring effective steam penetration in vacuum autoclaves.
The Bowie Dick Test Pack consists of a series of steam penetration (air removal) barriers in the centre of which is a chemical indicator sheet.
The test pack should be placed into an empty autoclave chamber and put through a recommended autoclave cycle of 134°C for 3.5 minutes.
Excelsior Scientific Growth Promotion Test Suspensions are ready-to-use microbial suspensions for media performance, microbial assays, enumerations and susceptibility testing where <100 Colony Forming Units per aliquot are required.
Organisms include:
- Bacillus subtilis
- Clostridium sporogenes
- Candida albicans
- Aspergillus brasiliensis
- Kocuria rhizophila
- Geobacillus stearothermophilus
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Escherichia Coli
- Bacillus atrophaeus
- Salmonella enterica
Sterilisation Monitoring Products and Lab Equipment
Known for their consistent, reliable performance, Excelsior Scientific sterilisation monitoring products are used by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, contract sterilisers, and other related industries.
Renowned worldwide for optimum performance at an exceptional price, all our equipment offers superb reliability and stability with a premium finish.