Air Trace® Environmental Particle Air Sampler

The Air Trace® Environmental Air Sampler is a state of the art slit-to-agar microbial air sampler. The sampler rotates a 150.0 mm agar plate through 360° while maintaining the agar plate at a fixed distance from a precision laser-cut slit, a critical feature to ensure maximum validated recovery of impacted organisms on the agar surface. After incubating the plate, growth on the medium can be interpreted for exactly when the contamination occurred during sampling, enabling the operator to pin-point a particular event during a process or procedure that may have raised the bio-burden to above acceptable limits. The rotation speed of the agar plate, as well as the percentage of the plate area exposed are param- eters set by the user, thus ensuring the flexibility to monitor virtually any process for biocontamination. The airflow through the instrument is automatically controlled at 1.0 CFM (28.3 LPM). The built-in software automatically stores user ID and unique location information for each run, and an RS232 serial printer can be used to download data. An optional kit is available for the monitoring of compressed gases.