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Sterilization assurance

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Every successful procedure starts with sterilization assurance. 

The path to safe surgeries starts with sterile instruments.

 

Solventum empowers sterile processing professionals with over 70 years of science-backed innovation, helping protect patients before instruments ever reach the operating room.

 

Our approach to sterilization assurance goes beyond products, offering a complete system of support that helps ensure instruments and implants are properly sterilized. We provide defined processes, third-party validated solutions, ongoing education and dedicated guidance — all built in partnership with the professionals who live this work every day.

 

It’s all part of how we never stop solving for you and your patients.

 

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 (VH2O2), 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 the BSI Kitemark™ 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. 





Steam sterilization assurance solutions
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Choose VH202 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.  





VH2O2 sterilization assurance solutions
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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. 

Contact your Solventum rep to learn more
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A simplified solution worth looking into

3M™ Attest™ Steam Clear Challenge Packs

Meet the most comprehensive solution for steam sterilization monitoring.* Gain confidence in your steam sterilization cycles with our new, easy-to-use clear challenge packs. They’re preassembled and allow you to inspect the biological indicator (BI) and the chemical integrator (CI) before and after processing without opening the pack. 

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 *3M™ Attest™ Steam Clear Challenge Packs (1492PCD, 1492PCDE, 1493PCDG) offer customers 8 cycle claims cleared by US FDA across the 3 challenge packs combined. Based on U.S. FDA cycle clearances as of January 17, 2025.

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3M™ Attest™ Super Rapid Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Clear Challenge Pack

Save time and reduce potential error with the 3M™ Attest™ Super Rapid Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Clear Challenge Pack including both a BI and a CI. It’s the first and only preassembled VH2O2 test pack that can be used for routine monitoring and qualification across multiple sterilizer brands, models and cycle types.*

*as of November 11, 2024

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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 Attest eBowie-Dick Test System is:

  • Definitive: Get pass/fail results without guesswork or subjective interpretation
  • Efficient: Removes the burden of paperwork and can eliminate 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.

Learn more
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Sterilization monitoring solutions

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Challenge packs


Our innovative clear challenge packs are process challenge devices (PCDs) containing both a chemical indicator (CI) and biological indicator (BI). Options available for both steam and vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VH2O2) sterilization monitoring.

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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.

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"What part of your work are you most passionate about?"

"I'm very passionate about patient care. In sterile processing, you are kind of the hidden gem of the hospital. And a lot of times people don't recognize the work that you do back there. But I find it to be kind of a self-motivation that we actually do make a huge difference in patient outcomes."

Courtney T.
Outpatient Supervisor – Sterile Processing

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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 (VH202) process failures in clinical settings using chemical indicators. Zentr Steril. 2020;28(6):334–343.