Phosphate-Buffered Saline (PBS) is a balanced salt solution used for a variety of cell culture applications, such as washing cells before dissociation, transporting cells or tissue, diluting cells for counting, and preparing reagents. PBS is formulated without calcium and magnesium for rinsing chelators from the culture before cell dissociation. Life Technologies offers a variety of Gibco® PBS formulations for a range of cell culture applications. Find the right formulation using the media selector tool.
The complete formulation is available.

Product Intended Use
For in vitro diagnostic use. CAUTION: Not for human or animal therapeutic use. Uses other than the intended use may be a violation of local law.

cGMP Manufacturing and Quality System
Gibco® PBS is manufactured at a cGMP compliant facility, located in Paisley, Scotland, UK. The facility is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer and is certified to the ISO 13485 standard. For supply chain continuity, Life Technologies offers an identical Gibco® PBS product made in our Grand Island facility (70013-073). This facility is registered with the FDA as a medical device manufacturer and is certified to the ISO 13485 standards.

Concentrated forms of Gibco® PBS may require pH adjustment at the time of dilution (see protocol for details).