Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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Containers
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't
do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no
fruition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Disposable containers form the heart of any comprehensive max-dispo
facility. To replace dozens of hard-walled (steel or glass) containers that
are used to store media, starting materials, and intermediate and finished
products, whether kept at room temperature or kept frozen, there is a great
need for containers. Fortunately, disposable bag systems have been very well
adopted as alternates to hard-walled containers. And this is because, histori-
cally, pharmaceutical products, such as sterile intravenous solutions, blood,
plasma, plasma expanders, and hyperalimentation solutions, have been
stored and dispensed in these types of bags. For blood storage, a disposable
bag would have one-layer films made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or eth-
ylene vinyl acetate (EVA).
Given in the following is a listing of major suppliers of disposable con-
tainers. Most major equipment suppliers have proprietary bags to fit only
their equipment, and while generic bag manufacturers may have alternates
to these proprietary bags, there are intellectual property issues involved as
many of these bags may have patent protection.
Proprietary Bag Suppliers
Thermo Scientific (
www.thermoscientiic.com
)
Sartorius-Stedim (
www.sartorius-stedim.com
)
Pall (
www.pall.com
)
GE (
www.gelifesciences.com
)
Millipore (
www.millipore.com
)
Xcellerex (
www.xcellerex.com
)
LevTech by ATMI Life Sciences (
http://www.atmi.com/lifesciences/
)
New Brunswick Scientific (
www.nbsc.com
)
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