Hank's Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS) is used for a variety of cell culture applications, such as washing cells before dissociation, transporting cells or tissue samples, diluting cells for counting, and preparing reagents. Formulations with calcium and magnesium are generally used as transport media, or for reagent preparation.

Life Technologies offers a variety of Gibco® HBSS formulations for a range of cell culture applications.
The complete formulation is available.

cGMP Manufacturing and Quality System
Gibco® HBSS is manufactured at a cGMP compliant facility, located in Grand Island, New York. The facility is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer and is certified to ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 standards. For supply chain continuity, Life Technologies offers an identical Gibco® HBSS product made in our Scotland facility (14065-049). This facility is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer and is certified to the ISO 13485 standard.