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Sterilization assurance

Your partner in sterilization assurance 

We can help you achieve the highest sterilization standards. Choose from a variety of sterilization monitoring solutions to help you achieve higher sterility assurance for your medical devices, equipment and instrumentation and to protect your patients. 

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Simplify. Standardize. Streamline. 

Maintaining the highest sterilization standards for your surgical instruments is critical to your mission of delivering a high standard of care. For over 30 years, we have delivered world-class, consistently reliable monitoring solutions to do just that. This trust has inspired us to continue creating solutions that help you tackle your daily challenges, improve workflows and reduce costs — all while you deliver sterile and safe instruments for every patient. 

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Greater challenges need innovative solutions. We can help you: 

Simplify

Simplify your daily workflows with 3M™ Attest™ Sterilization Monitoring Solutions, from the innovators who created the first rapid steam biological indicator over 30 years ago. 

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Standardize

Maintain consistent quality assurance protocols with products like the 3M™ Attest ™ Super Rapid Readout Biological Indicators for Steam and vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VH202), designed to meet and exceed industry benchmarks.

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Streamline 

Accelerate the adoption of Every Load Monitoring (ELM) by relying on our biological indicators (BIs) and chemical integrators (CIs) in your sterilization process, enhancing your workflow. 

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Discover our advanced sterilization monitoring products to help you protect your patients, your staff and your practice – and to put confidence in your hands. 

Backed by BSI Kitemark: Shining a light on excellence

Look for this mark to know that the products you choose have achieved BSI Kitemark™ certification. As a leading global independent product testing services company, BSI provides an extra layer of confidence in the design, manufacture and performance of Solventum solutions. 

To award certification, BSI Kitemark continuously tests production samples exactly to protocols within International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards. After repeated verification under precise conditions, this independent body certifies that our products perform consistently according to industry standards. Choosing to undergo voluntary, rigorous third-party certification audits reflects our unwavering commitment to quality and safety. 

If you’d like to receive a copy of our BSI Kitemark certification, please contact your local sales representative. 

Steam sterilization assurance solutions leadership you can trust

Steam has been a trusted sterilization method for more than 100 years. It’s been the go-to sterilant because it’s reliable, inexpensive and ideal for sterilizing medical instruments — such as scalpels and scissors — that can withstand high heat. But how do you make sure your steam sterilizer is working effectively to keep instruments safe?


We’ve designed steam sterilization solutions to deliver fast, reliable results and help enhance patient safety. 





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Choose VH2O2 for sensitive medical devices


While steam sterilization is the go-to solution for most medical devices, some medical devices cannot be sterilized with steam. That’s why we’ve designed low temperature sterilization assurance solutions — vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VH2O2) — for heat- and moisture-sensitive medical devices, like small flexible endoscopes. 


Explore our wide range of products to help you monitor every step of the low temperature sterilization process, from exposure monitoring to record keeping.  





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Choose ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization for challenging lumened instrumentation

Ethylene Oxide (EO or EtO) is an important tool in the sterilization of medical devices that cannot be sterilized with steam, like flexible endoscopes. Sterile processing professionals need to find the right combination of low-temperature sterilization solutions to balance competing demands and manage costs, comply with manufacturers' Instructions for Use (IFUs) and effectively sterilize critical instruments. 


We know that safety is important. That’s why we’ve designed EtO sterilization assurance solutions that are highly effective, gentle on instruments and cost-effective.  


EtO sterilization is a safe and effective option for both your staff and patients.

EtO sterilization assurance solutions 
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Go digital with confidence: Introducing the 3M Attest eBowie-Dick Test System 

Automated, digitized sterilization testing is here. Now you can save time, enhance your steam workflow, boost confidence, and get the reassurance that your sterile processing team is operating at its best. The same testing method you’ve always trusted is now digital. 

 

Our 3M™ Attest™ eBowie-Dick Test System is: 

  • Definitive: Get pass/fail results without guesswork or subjective interpretation 
  • Efficient: Remove the burden of paperwork and eliminates manual recordkeeping 
  • Innovative: The FDA created a new category for it 

 

We’re making it easier for you to simplify, standardize and streamline your sterilization process. 

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Challenge packs


These convenient disposable packs present a challenge to the steam sterilization load, equivalent to the user-assembled BI challenge test packs (16-towel PCD) recommended by AAMI ST79. Results in 24 minutes. 1482V; 1496V

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Ready to get started with our starter kit? 

We can help you save with a starter kit. You can standardize practice across multiple facilities or your individual office — all with efficiency and training ease. Our simple, easy-to-use, portfolio of sterilization products is at your fingertips.

 

Learn more about our Attest 490 Starter Kits options for:

 

Larger hospital systems:

Read our Attest 490 Starter Kit guide to find out how you can easily simplify your processes, so you have more time to help manage personnel and staff training.

 

Surgery centers and smaller facilities: 

Check out our Attest 490M Starter Kit guide to find out how your center can request a starter kit and get tips on how to save time and money.  

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References:

  1. Based on 3M-commissioned Gestalt survey of U.S. OR professionals, with CIs exposed to a steam sterilization cycle, shown to respondents in images of simulated-use conditions. 

  2. Based on 3M-commissioned Gestalt survey of U.S. OR professionals, with CIs exposed to a steam sterilization cycle, shown to respondents in images of simulated-use conditions.

  3. Kirk B. Detecting vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilization (VH2O2) process failures in clinical settings using chemical indicators. Zentr Steril. 2020;28(6):334–343.