Filter Integrity Test Equipment
The performance of sterile gas filter systems is critical to a plant’s Quality Assurance objective of protecting their product from contamination during production and packaging.
The on-going performance of a plant’s sterilizing grade gas filters can be checked by routine integrity testing as part of their HACCP plan. Most integrity testing methods are time consuming and difficult to perform, thus conflicting with the demand for efficient operation for leading beverage processes.
Valairdata 3 Integrity Test Unit
The VALAIRDATA 3 is the next generation of fully automated, aerosol challenge integrity test unit, designed to test the integrity of sterile gas filters quickly and easily. The VALAIRDATA 3 aerosol challenge test is fully correlated to aerosolized B.diminuta, B.subtilis and Enterobacteria phage MS2 challenges and is a recommended test methodology in the “PDA’s Sterilizing Filtration of Gas – Technical Report #40”.
BEVCHECK PLUS
BEVCHECK PLUS provides an automated method for testing membrane filter cartridges used in beverage applications. Using the pressure decay method, the unit controls the whole test from increase of pressure, through stabilization and pressure decay measurement, to release of pressure.