Sterilization monitoring solutions helps your team do more.
Staff turnover. Workflow pressure. Human error. Your job is tough. Your job is important. And we're here to ensure your voice remains heard and understood. We've been helping Central Sterilization departments and healthcare facilities overcome the challenges they face for over 50+ years with a holistic approach to sterilization assurance - and we're just getting started.
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Standarize. Simplify. Streamline.
3M™ Attest™ Sterilization Monitoring Solutions are designed to help you tackle daily challenges, improve workflows and reduce costs.
With the science of 3M behind you, you can be confident that every sterilization cycle is monitored prior to instrument use so every patient receives a high level of care.
Learn about all of our sterilzation monitoring products
Sterilization Monitoring Product Categories
From inventing the first rapid steam biological indicator (BI) more than 30 years ago to offering a BI with the most FDA-cleared VH202 sterilizers and cycle types in the industry today, 3M innovations continue to provide the assurance you need.
3M™ Attest™ Super Rapid Readout Biological Indicators for Steam are the first BI products with BSI Kitemark™ certification of ISO 11138 standard. And 3M™ Attest™ Rapid Biological Indicator for VH2O2 reliably monitors VH2O2 sterilization processes and provides accurate results in 24 minutes.*
Continuing to lead the way with chemical indicators (CIs), 3M™ Attest™ Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide (VH2O2) Tri-Metric Chemical Indicator, Type 4 provides a higher level of quality assurance for monitoring VH2O2 sterilization processes compared to other Type 1 and Type 4 VH2O2 CIs tested.1 Likewise, 3M™Attest™ Steam Chemical Integrators, Type 5 prove to be easiest to find and easiest to read when compared to other Type 5 chemical integrators tested.2,3
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Get results for both steam and VH2O2 in one reader in just 24 minutes.* Place any 3M™ Attest™ steam BI and VH2O2 BI in any well of the 3M™ Attest ™Auto-reader at the same time.
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Detect the presence of microbial spores with steam and VH2O2 load monitoring.
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Choose the product that's easiest to find and easiest to read when compared to other Type 5 steam chemical integrators tested.3,4
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Provides a higher level of quality assurance for monitoring VH2O2 sterilization processes compared to all Type 1 and Type 4 VH2O2 CIs tested.1
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Make testing steam penetration and air removal, as well as detecting air leaks, convenient and cost effective.
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Our sterilization monitoring solutions are designed to simplify, standardize and streamline operations.
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Learn how to save with your starter kit.
You can standardize practice across mulitple facilites or your individual office - all with efficiency and training ease. Implementing 3M's simple easy-to-use, family of sterilization products is at your fingertips. Learn more about our 3M™ Attest™ 490 Starter Kits options and how you can save:
*When used with 3M™ Attest™ Mini Auto-reader 490M or with 3M™ Attest™ Auto-reader 490 or 490H with software version 4.2.7 or greater.
1. Kirk B. Detecting vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilization (VH2O2) process failures in clinical settings using chemical indicators. Zentr Steril. 2020;28(6):334–343.
2. Based on 3M-commissioned Gestalt survey of U.S. OR professionals with CIs placed in an actual instrument tray, shown to respondents in images of simulated-use conditions.
3. 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.