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We know that your baby's safety is the most important thing for you, and it's our priority too.
Understandably, you want to be confident in the knowledge that you’re doing the best for them.
Over half a million parents love our Perfect Prep™ machines, and because it's such a unique product, we often get asked how it works and about its safety.
You can rest assured that our Perfect Prep™ machines and filters go through an extensive testing process to ensure that they're able to safely and efficiently make a formula feed in under two minutes.
Find out more about this below.
Perfect Prep™ machines automatically control the quality, volume and temperature of the water used to make up a formula feed. Once the water is in the hopper, it passes through a unique filter that removes bacteria and other impurities. The Ultra Filtration membrane inside has openings that are smaller than bacteria and create a physical barrier. Once the water is filtered, the machine is ready to make up the feed.
It starts with a ‘hot shot’ of water that’s over 70°C to kill any bacteria that may be in the formula powder and then completes the feed by dispensing the correct amount of cool water to deliver the right volume of feed at body temperature.
Yes. Perfect Prep™
machines are designed to make a parent’s life simpler and passes all appropriate standards for electrical baby products. The filter has been designed and independently tested to be as effective as boiling water from a microbiological perspective and ensures impurities are removed so that clean and safe water is delivered to the bottle, and the hot shot kills bacteria that may be in the formula powder.
Perfect Prep™ machines are designed to achieve the same result as following the NHS/World Health Organisation guidelines.
The World Health Organisation guidelines were designed for making up a feed without a Perfect Prep™ machine, and state that boiled water that’s cooled for no more than 30 minutes, should be used. Perfect Prep™ machines are designed to produce the same safe formula feed, but more quickly and conveniently, in just two minutes. This saves time for parents and frustration for their baby, without compromising on safety.
Regular cleaning and maintenance are required to ensure the safety of your machine. You’ll need to run a cleaning cycle before the first use, after every filter change, after every de-scaling process and if you haven’t used it within the last seven days.
Visit the product support pages to learn how to properly clean your Perfect Prep™ machine.
Our Perfect Prep™ machines have undergone rigorous testing. This includes validating the effectiveness of the filter and the 'hot shot', that the dosage control of water is accurate, and that the feed is always at the correct temperature for your baby.
Bacteria removal is of course a concern to parents. The filter has been independently tested and verified as being as effective as boiling water for removing bacteria, and independent tests have also proved the effectiveness of the ‘hot shot’ in killing Cronobacter, Sakazakii and Salmonella, in the very unlikely event that these are present in the formula powder.
Our filter supplier asked one of the world’s largest, UKAS-accredited, scientific testing companies to test the Perfect Prep™ filter for its ability to remove bacteria from water, compared to the ability of boiling water. To conduct the test, they passed ‘spiked’ water that contained Coliform, Enterococci and Pseudomonas bacteria through the filter.
Having completed the study, their conclusion was:
"Throughout the testing program, the filters have been challenged with bacteria levels far in excess of those that would normally be found in drinking water. 41 of the 45 tests performed on the filters showed a 100% reduction in bacteria and in the remaining 4 tests where bacteria were cultured from the filtered water the levels detected were negligible in comparison to the spiking level with the lowest percentage reduction observed being 99.3%. Using the results from this testing it is our opinion that the statement 'as effective as boiling water' from a microbiological perspective is reasonable for this product".
We are aware that some people are buying standard water jug filters, rather than Tommee Tippee filters, to use in their Perfect Prep™ machines. Most standard water filters do not include an anti-bacterial filtration membrane like ours do, and so they will not remove bacteria.
Therefore, it's extremely important to make sure that you're buying and using the correct Tommee Tippee anti-bacterial filter.
More information and a series of ‘How To’ videos are available on our Perfect Prep™ support pages, along with downloadable copies of the instruction manuals for each model:
If you have other questions or would like to talk to someone about our Perfect Prep™ machines, please contact us.
We recommend adding the formula first. Adding the formula first to the bottle ensures the hot shot dispensed from the Perfect Prep is at its highest temperature when it makes contact with formula to kill bacteria that may be present within the infant formula.
The Perfect Prep “hot shot” methodology has been validated, across all volumes of feed (from 4oz – 11oz), by an external laboratory and meets the WHO recommendations of a temperature of at least 70°C to kill any bacteria that may be present in the powdered formula.
If you have specific concerns regarding your Perfect Prep our ParentHub team will be happy to help, you’ll find their contact details here: Contact Us | Tommee Tippee UK
