High Throughput Quality Control for Bottled Water
Simplify Your Water Testing - Efficient Solutions by Sartorius
High standards. High throughput. Consumers and legislation are demanding ever-increasing levels of safety and quality for bottled water. Your challenge is ensuring cost-effective, efficient and contamination-free operation from factory to shelf to meet the growing demand for the world’s most popular drink.
Smart, ready-to-use Quality Control systems by Sartorius provide all you need to meet these requirements. Quick and convenient– for the purest water quality.
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Process Flow Chart for Your Bottled Water Process*
Discover the different steps in the bottled water manufacturing workflow and click on the icon „+“ to get to know the variety of applications and solutions Sartorius offers for testing your water bottling process.
*This workflow may not exactly represent your workflow in your bottled water manufacturing, however it generalizes the QC checkpoints.
Applications in Your Quality Control (QC) and Our Product Solutions
You are committed to creating high-quality bottled-water with consistent look, smell, feel and flavor from one bottle to the next. We are committed to providing you the products you need to ensure your bottled water´s taste, aroma and quality. For the quality control in your bottled water processing, we have solutions for the following applications:
Microbiological Water Testing
Your bottled water must be of an appropriate purity standard for drinking water and microbial contamination can occur at your water’s source or during the treatment and bottling process. Therefore, regular, routine testing of process piping, and tubing/gaskets, as well as source water from external springs and wells, is crucial for maintaining your water’s quality and safety.
What to test?
- For microbial quality control, it is recommended to test for coliform bacteria (specifically E. coli), as well as bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococci are recommended for microbial quality control.
- Since throughput can be challenging when testing your bottled water, Sartorius offers products designed for speed and convenience, saving your microbiologists valuable time when testing.
e.motion Dispenser Membrane filters
e.motion Membrane filters:
Membrane filtration is the established method of choice for bottled water testing as you can test a higher volume of the sample by concentration of potential contaminants on the membrane filter. This methode provides reliable and reproducible results. The recommended filter type for microbiological testing of liquid samples is cellulose nitrate (mixed cellulose ester) filter with grid lines. Your benefits include:
- Various filter colors allow the optimal contrast to colonies for easy quantification and identification
- High recovery rates of microorganisms
- Fast flow rates of liquid samples with High flow membranes
- Easy colony counting due to clear colony morphology and distinct grid lines.
- No inhibition of microbial growth by grid lines
- Available in 2 different packages sizes
- Configured for use with automatic Mircrosart® e.motion dispenser
Microsart® e.motion Dispenser
Microsart e.motion Dispenser: Automatic membrane filter dispensing either by touch of a button, hands-free motion detection or by using a foot switch minimize risks of secondary contamination. Your benefits include:
- Space-saving small footprint
- Automated opening of the filter package makes workflow easier
- Available with battery option that avoids cable clutter
- Big pack with 250 filters avoids re-loading during a shift
Microsart® Manifold
Facilitate your routine microbiological testing procedures with the new Microsart® Manifold: select the proper manifold for your individual microbiological testing procedure, choose between reusable and single use funnels or filtration units, and decide between different sizes of manifolds and enjoy the manifold that adapts to your needs.
Microsart® e.jet pump
Liquid transfer pump connects to Microsart® Manifold as the vacuum source for the filtration of your liquid samples. Your benefits include:
- Small footprint
- Can be adapted directly to the manifold, no need for suction flask or Woulffs bottle
- External pump head, making it easy to change pump direction or exchange entirely
Biosart® 250 Funnel
Reusable funnel with a volume of 250mL, adapted to a cellulose nitrate membrane filter on the Microsart® Manifold. Your benefits include:
- Can be autoclaved up to 20-30 times
- No need for flaming of the funnels after each filtration step
Microsart® 250 Funnel
Single use funnel with a volume of 250 mL, adapted to a cellulose nitrate membrane filter on the Microsart® Manifold. Your benefit includes:
- Single use funnel for minimized risk of secondary contamination
- No autoclaving of the funnels needed
- No need for flaming of the funnels after each filtration step
Biosart® 100 Monitors
Ready-to-use sterile filtration unit in 100ml volume. Combine a funnel, a lid, a filter base, a gridded membrane filter and a cellulose pad in one unit. Your benefit includes:
- Saves time and handling steps as autoclaving of funnels and base is not needed
- Minimize the risk of secondary contamination
- Available in different pore sizes and membrane colors
- Different ampoule media types available for water testing
Biosart® 100 Nutrient Media
Sterile ready to use liquid Media in a 2.5ml ampoule. For use with Biosart Monitors or Cellulose Pads in Petri dishes. Your benefit includes:
- Saves time because no preparation of media needed
- Saves space in laboratory refridgerator
- Different media types for water and beer testing available
- Long shelf life of 9-12 months
Microsart@filter
Ready-to-use sterile filtration unit in 100 or 250ml volume. Combine a funnel, a filter base and a gridded
membrane filter in one unit. Your benefit includes:
- Saves time and handling steps as autoclaving of funnels and base is not needed
- Minimize the risk of secondary contamination
- Reliable results as no liquid remains after filtration
Nutrient Pad Sets (NPS)
An attractive alternative to agar plates, NPS are dehydrated media pads in petri dishes, , packed in double layer Aluminium protective bag, come along with suitable membrane filters for economical, time-saving microbiological quality control of water and brewery samples. Your benefits include:
- Eliminate time-consuming, labor-intensive culture media preparation
- No need for cooling of the NPS during storage or transportation due to dehydrated media
- Long shelf-life of 2 years
- Suitable membrane filter included (pore size and color)
Prospenser Plus
Bottle-top Dispenser, dispenses an exact volume of sterile water for wetting the Nutrient Pad Sets for activation of the nutrient media.
Analytical QC
To safeguard the quality of your bottled water, you have to perform analytical tests, on your source and purified water. To get the best results from your tests you need the best tools for sample preparation, such as pipettes, laboratory balances, syringe filters, filter papers and water purification systems.
What to test?
- Chemicals including minerals, pesticides and compounds
- Sartorius has all the essential products and solutions to make your sample preparation, quick and simple, as well as ensure your water meets current safety regulations, including European Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3rd November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption and US FDA regulations and limits for both chemistry and microbial contaminants under 21 CFR 165.110.
Arium® Mini UV Water Filtration System
High-quality water is important to all analytical processes, but it is especially important when performing chromatographic analysis, such as HPLC, GC-MS, or ICP.
Arium® Mini lab water system: a compact ultrapure water system specially designed for labs with requirements up to 15 liters per day. Key advantages:
- Constantly low conductivity: ASTM Type 1 water to increase sensitivity of analytical results and minimize chemical ion interference
- Consistently low TOC levels: Remove TOC levels down to a minimum and avoid background noises in chromatograms
- Reliable process stability: Offering a variety of services, e.g. installation, equipment qualification (IQ|OQ), preventative maintenance etc. ensuring consistently reliable water quality along the entire life cycle of the system.
- Ease-of-use: Intuitive menu navigation with easy-to-use touch display
- Space-saving unit with a width of only 28 cm (11 inches)
Cubis®️ II Premium Laboratory Balance
A completely configurable, high-performance portfolio of lab balance hardware and software that will align with your unique demands and compliance requirements to maximize operational efficiency and experimental outcomes. Your benefits include:
- Large 7“ color display, including touch, scroll, swipe functionality with factory installed essential weighing applications and diverse QApp Packages for optional software extension
- Built-in applications guide you through your workflows
- Fast and easy levelling guaranteed with automatic, motorized levelling function
- Status Center for user notifications and alerts. User management including centralized password management support, high security password configuration, login rules.
Quintix® Lab Balance
A reliable lab balance for faster and better weighing results. Your benefits include:
- The Start Assistant function and SmartTouch user interface enable you to operate the balance right-out-of-the-box and feel at ease using all the functions available
- Intuitive applications guide you through simple steps in each of your workflows.
- Quickly and easily transfer, evaluate, further process, or save and document weighing results in perfect compliance with legal requirements – just by using Plug & Play technology, without the need for any extra software or complicated settings
Prospenser and Prospenser Plus
- Provides accurate and precise dispensing throughout their long lifetime thanks to the high-quality materials
- Low weight provides comfortable usability
- Excellent chemical resistance
Tacta® Pipette
- Superb comfort and incontestable reliability helps you to achieve minimal variation throughout the working day.
- Best ergonomics with soft tip attachment and light ejection protects the user.
- Only three parts to clean enforces contamination free pipetting – combine with Safe-Cone filters or SafetySpace Filter tips to boost contamination control and prolong the pipettes lifetime.
Optifit Tips
- Perfect fitting and sealing with Sartorius pipettes secures the highest possible accuracy and precision.
- Wide volume range and packaging options to suit your application and use.
- Optifit tips meet the highest purity and quality standards.
Minisart® Syringe Filters
- Minisart® RC is optimized for aqueous liquids and solvents and is compatible with DMSO, other amides, ketones, esters and ethers.
- Minisart® NY Plus uses a pure quartz glass fiber prefilter optimized for sample preparation for all medium to highly particle-laden samples prior to analytical tests.
- Minisart® High Flow offers fast flow rates for low to medium particle-laden samples without any prefilter material, without increasing hold-up volume.
Claristep®
- The Claristep® Filtration System is the best choice for easy handling and low hold-up volume for small sample volumes.
- See our application note for Claristep® and food/beverage.
Air Monitoring
HACCP is essential when bottling water and knowing which microorganisms are in present in your production area helps ensures contamination free operation. Contamination can occur during your water treatment and bottle filling process, leading to microbes growing in the water, potentially making it unsafe to drink.
What to test?
- Test ambient air for airborne microorganisms, for example at your filling line and at critical points in your water treatment areas.
- Sartorius provides you with products and solutions to make testing for airborne microorganisms fast, effective, and efficient.
MD8 Airport
A portable device to monitor microbiological air quality in your water production area and at the filling line. Your benefits include:
- Battery operated and portable
- Ergonomically designed and easy to clean
- User-friendly prompting with the option of four languages: English, French, German and Spanish
- Flexible options for customized use, including adjustable air throughput and air flow rate
- Storage of last-used parameters, even after automatic shut-off
- Can be calibrated on-site
Check Weighing
Our balances provide a reliable solution to checking the weight of your bottled water. Using the Check Weighing program with defined limits and weighing visual aids means you can accurately control your water content or nominal gross weights more accurately and cost-effectively than you would using balance technology built into your bottling line. You can obtain your results in range of formats and communication ports with Cubis® II (Ethernet, USB and RS232), Quintix® (USB) and Entris® II (USB and RS232), making integration of our balances into your bottling process quick and easy.
Vibrations, airflow, temperature changes can be major challenges in your bottled water production facility, our balances offer quick stabilization times. By using stability filters, the level indicator on the Quintix® and Entris® II or using the levelling warning with Cubis® II (MCA) balances, you’ll maintain a flat, horizontal surface for quick weighing every time.
Features
- Check weight is a function included in our essential weighing applications package that comes with Cubis® II (MCA), Quintix and Entris® II balances.
- Check weight can determine whether a bottled water’s weight falls within a specified tolerance range.
- Print out each measure and change to the next identical bottle/can and get the stats in the end at the touch of a button.
- Weighs safe the different bottle types such as glass and plastic in sizes from 0.3 L up to 5 L
Recommendations, norms, regulations and directives our balances work according to, include:
OIML R 79, R 87 & R138
Directives 76/211/EEC, 2007/45/EC, 2009/34/EC & 75/107/EEC
NIST Handbook 133 and 21-C.F.R. Parts 1, 101, 129 & 165
Cubis®️ II Premium Laboratory Balance
A completely configurable, high-performance portfolio of lab balance hardware and software that will align with your unique demands and compliance requirements to maximize operational efficiency and experimental outcomes. Your benefits include:
- Large 7“ color display, including touch, scroll, swipe functionality with factory installed essential weighing applications and diverse QApp Packages for optional software extension
- Built-in applications guide you through your workflows
- Fast and easy levelling guaranteed with automatic, motorized levelling function
- Status Center for user notifications and alerts. User management including centralized password management support, high security password configuration, login rules.
Quintix® Lab Balance
A reliable lab balance for faster and better weighing results. Your benefits include:
- The Start Assistant function and SmartTouch user interface enable you to operate the balance right-out-of-the-box and feel at ease using all the functions available
- Intuitive applications guide you through simple steps in each of your workflows.
- Quickly and easily transfer, evaluate, further process, or save and document weighing results in perfect compliance with legal requirements – just by using Plug & Play technology, without the need for any extra software or complicated settings
Entris® II Lab Balance
- Best Value in its Class for Basic Weighing Tasks.
- Unrivalled value at a budget price point, Entris® II is the only balance in its class featuring isoCAL, LED touch technology and 12 built-in applications.
- High chemical resistance ensured using parts made from hard-wearing polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), stainless steel and glass
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