Cherwell launches Redipor TwistLock plates to enhance sample security in microbial environmental monitoring

Cherwell has introduced a new range of plated prepared media designed to deliver sample security, data integrity, and optimized workflow in microbial monitoring. Cherwell’s new Redipor^® TwistLock plates feature a secure locking lid and side-label with a GS1 DataMatrix barcode to enhance contamination protection, improve traceability and support automation, ensuring environmental monitoring (EM) meets exacting industry standards.

The addition of Redipor TwistLock plate options alongside standard plates in Cherwell’s broad range of Redipor prepared media products, supports a shift in pharmaceutical and associated industries towards more standardised, traceable, and risk-based microbial EM. The new locking lid plates – which are also available globally within AnalytiChem’s Redipor portfolio – align with GMP Annex 1 and ICH Q9 principles, offering benefits in terms of contamination control, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience.

Sample security is ensured by the secure seal on the plate enabled by TwistLock technology, preventing contamination and protecting sample integrity when transporting within and between facilities.

Designed to deliver data integrity and reliability, Redipor TwistLock plates maintain the highest standards of data accuracy and traceability supported by GS1 barcodes on side-labels. They also support automated colony counting, plus integration with LIMS and electronic batch records. Additionally, the plates’ user-friendly design aids laboratory workflow efficiencies as they streamline handling, reduce errors and minimise costly retesting.

Like Cherwell’s standard Redipor prepared media plates, Redipor TwistLock plates are available triple-wrapped and gamma irradiated in Petri and contact plate formats to guarantee sterility and extend shelf-life to six months. Bespoke options are also available – a key offering of Cherwell’s Redipor range is the ability to customise to user needs in terms of differing media formulations, fill volumes and packaging formats.

Yoggya De Silva, Microbiology Product Specialist, Cherwell, said, “The launch of our new locking lid Redipor TwistLock prepared media plates provides an answer to the demand for ever-increasing vigilance, and building resilient and reliable microbial EM programmes.”

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