Sartorius Stedim Biotech presents Virosart® Media

First risk-mitigating virus-retentive filter for cell culture media


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Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, has launched Virosart® Media for virus retention in cell culture media. With this new media filter, the company offers a fast and cost-effective solution for manufacturers to reduce the risk of virus contamination resulting from raw materials, such as chemically defined media, during fermentation.

Virosart® Media is a single-use filter that provides the highest level of safety for customers’ upstream processes as it is qualified for > 4 log10 reduction of small, non-enveloped viruses (e.g., MVM) and as a mycoplasma and leptospira retentive filter.

A major benefit of this new filter is that mid-scale and process filters of the Virosart® Media product family will also be qualified as a sterile filter based on the current ASTM guideline. The first product of the Virosart® Media family is a lab filter with a filtration area of 5.0 cm2 for down-scale, ...

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