BD BBL™ IC-XT Pack Sabouraud Glucose Agar with Lecithin and Polysorbate 80 is used for cultivation of fungi when monitoring the environmental and product hygiene in clean rooms of pharmaceutical production and fill rooms.

“IC-XT Pack” (Isolator Cleanroom-Extended Temperature) products are available in different plate formats; they are gamma-sterilized after the aseptic fill procedure to allow monitoring of the environmental and product hygiene and the efficiency of disinfection in clean rooms of pharmaceutical production and fill rooms, and in isolators. All IC-XT products are packaged in impermeable plastic films to allow an extended stability and storage at 2 to 25° C throughout the shelf life with exception of IC-XT products containing chloramphenicol for which storage is limited to 2 to 8° C throughout the shelf life. RODAC™ (Replicate Organism Detection and Counting) plates are particularly recommended for the use in the detection and enumeration of micro-organisms present on surfaces of sanitary importance.

BD BBL™ IC-XT Pack Sabouraud Glucose Agar with Lecithin and Polysorbate 80 contains lecithin and polysorbate 80 to neutralize surface disinfectants.5-8 Lecithin is a neutralizer of quaternary ammonium compounds. Polysorbate 80 neutralizes phenols, hexachlorophene, formalin and, with lecithin, ethanol.