Stericup® E and
Steritop® E Sterile Filters
Millipore® engineers innovate for your lab — and for our world
If you’re like us, you may have chosen a science career—at least in part—from a desire to make your world a better place. You might lead your group’s green lab practices from a sense of personal commitment to environmental responsibility, or seek solutions that help you meet institutional sustainability requirements. Whatever motivates you, we have tools that can help you achieve your (official or honorary) green lab certification.
For more than six decades, Millipore® minds have led the design and manufacture of membrane devices for the filtration needs of life scientists, enhancing and elevating sterile culture technique with the iconic Stericup® and Steritop® filtration devices. Our mission to develop trusted lab tools that are also environmentally responsible and sustainable has led to the design of the Stericup® E and Steritop® E filters, the newest — and most mindfully developed — members of our sterile filtration family.
How does Stericup® E work?
Stericup® E devices flip sterile filtration on its head—literally! We’ve eliminated the need for the plastic filler funnel by creating a way to attach standard media bottles or glassware directly onto the filter unit. First, invert the Stericup® E filter/receiver bottle assembly and thread onto the bottle containing media or buffer. Then, simply flip the assembly over, attach to vacuum, and watch sterile filtration happen. Steritop® E devices save even more plastic by allowing you to attach the filter to your own compatible, reusable labware receiver bottle before threading onto the bottle containing unfiltered media.
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Reliable sterile filtration. Less plastic and packaging.
Our engineers found a device design that retains exceptional Stericup® filtration while providing your lab a way to dramatically reduce the use of disposable plastic and packaging materials. Whether your goal is a green lab certification or just a smaller footprint, both the Stericup®E and Steritop® E filters are designed to ensure trouble-free cell culture, while diminishing environmental impact in multiple ways.
Usage Guidelines
Choose a collar thread (38 mm or 45 mm) that is compatible with your glass or plastic media/ buffer bottle.
- The 38 mm thread is recommended for Merck media bottles and majority of other standard commercial media bottles.
- The 45 mm thread is recommended for wider neck media bottles (such as Gibco®).
- Use only glass or plastic bottles designed for vacuum applications. For the Steritop® E filter funnel, use a 45 mm threaded glass or plastic receiver bottle no larger than 2 liters.
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Both Stericup® E and Steritop® E sterile filters thread directly onto virtually any commercial media bottle or glass bottle |
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Stericup® E products use significantly less packaging made from materials that reduce environmental impact |
STERICUP® E AND STERITOP® E FILTER UNITS – SUSTAINABILITY CHECKLIST
- Stericup® E and Steritop® E filters thread directly onto any commercial media bottle or glass bottle:
- Reduces plastic and hazardous waste.
- Frees-up storage in labs—crucial in smaller tissue culture rooms, where space is at a premium.
- Enhances laboratory compliance with institutional sustainability requirements—or a means for achieving individual environmental responsibility goals.
- Stericup® E and Steritop® E filters have the Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency (ACT) Environmental Impact Factor Label, published by My Green Lab®, providing a score based around manufacturing processes, energy and water use, packaging and end-of-life. The ACT labelled products help labs choose greener life science products. ACT labels can be viewed for each Stericup® E and Steritop® E product by visiting the product pages via the table below.
- Stericup® E and Steritop® E filters are packaged in individual, recyclable pouches for sterility.
- Stericup® E and Steritop® E filter user guides are provided in digital format, accessible here on our website, or via scanning the QR code on the packaging label, to reduce paper waste.
- The Stericup® E and Steritop® E corrugated boxes and dividers have sustainable forestry certification.
Related Product Resources
- Fact Sheet: Stericup ® E Sustainability
Stericup® E and Steritop® E sterile filters were developed using Design for Sustainability principles to reduce the amount of plastic waste associated with sterile filtration.
- Greener Products & Solutions
In 2014, we created Design for Sustainability (DfS)—our gold-standard design approach that keeps sustainability at the forefront of each stage of the product life cycle as we develop, engineer and re-engineer products to minimize environmental and health impact, and simultaneously improve product performance.
- Sustainability
Long-term impact drives our sustainable success; shaping the future through products and technologies to solve global challenges.
- Stem Cell Testing of PES Membrane Containing Stericup® Quick Release Filters
This article shows that a PES membrane containing Stericup Quick Release filter provides an alternative for the pluripotent expansion of embryonic stem cells.
- T Cell Expansion and Viability Using Stericup®-filtered Media
Learn about the impact of filtration on hematopoietic cell culture media containing vital T cell factors and other media components.
- Mycoplasma Clearance Performance of Stericup® and Steritop® Filters
Evaluation of mycoplasma removal by sterilizing filtration using 0.1 µm PES and PVDF filters for cell culture media and buffer preparation.
- Evaluating of Stericup® Quick Release Filtration Devices for Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) in Cell Culture
Learn how to effectively filter fetal bovine serum (FBS) using Stericup® Quick Release vacuum filtration devices, including flow test data and analysis.
- Protein Binding in Sterile Filtration of Cell Culture Media
Evaluation of sterile filtration devices for protein preservation in sterile filtration of cell culture media.
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