Alcotabs® Critical Cleaning Detergent Tablets

Alcotabs consists primarily of a homogeneous blend of sodium linear alkylaryl sulphonate, phosphates, carbonate and excipient ingredients added to aid in tabletting. Alcotabs are anionic in nature.

Alcotabs are versatile critical-cleaning detergent tablets:

• Are special slow-release tablets with a formulation for maximum cleaning performance from your syphon pipette washers

• Are concentrated to save you money

• Are biodegradable and disposable

• Are free-rinsing to give you quality results

• Are used to pass your cleaning and inspection approvals

Applications:

• Pipettes and tubes with syphon pipette washers in hospital, clinical, educational, R&D and industrial laboratories and cosmetics manufacturing

Alcotabs is used to remove: Soil, Grit, Grime, Grease, Fats and oils, Blood, Tissue, Salt deposits, Particulates, Chemicals, Solvents, Radioisotopes

Alcotabs for use on surfaces including: Glass, Metal, Stainless steel, Porcelain, Ceramic, Plastic, Rubber, Fibreglass, Aluminium, Zinc, Magnesium

Alcotabs should be used according to the following cleaning method:

• Syphon pipette and tube rinser

Directions:

1. Submerge pipettes immediately after use in a 1% Alconox, Liquinox, or Tergazyme solution.

2. Let soak in jar until enough pipettes accumulate to fill holder.

3. Drop 2 Alcotabs into the rinser.

4. Place the holder with pipettes into rinser.

5. Alcotab will dissolve (in cold or warm water) and effervesce, producing a detergent solution that passes up and down through the bores and around the pipettes.

6. Rinsing automatically follows after the tablet has dissolved.

7. For analytical or tissue culture work, use distilled, deionised, or purified water for all or final rinse.

Cleaning Validation Methods:

Test a parameter of rinse water before and after rinsing the cleaned surface, or test the clean surface. No significant change in the parameter indicates no detectable residue. Parameters measured include: conductivity, UV, TOC, HPLC, sodium concentration, phosphorus concentration, anionic surfactant concentration using inexpensive detergent water testing kits, surface tension, and surface analysis.

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