technology

Rapid microbial detection (RMM)

Growth-based or metabolic-activity methods that compress sterility or bioburden detection from the classical 14-day timeline to hours or a few days, validated as equivalent under USP <1223>/Ph. Eur. 5.1.6.

Where it's used

Sterility testing systems
Membrane-filtration pump systems, automated colony-detection platforms and rapid microbial detection instruments that confirm a parenteral product is free of viable microorganisms before release — a mandatory 14-day compendial test now increasingly compressed to hours or days by validated rapid alternative methods.
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