Philips Avent iQ24 Steam Sterilizer without Bottle | 
| Brand: Philips Avent
List Price: $89.99
Buy New: $74.00
You Save: $15.99 (18%)
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 228
Color: one color
Batteries Included: No
Size: one size
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 9 x 12.6 x 9
MPN: SCF276/33
Model: SCF276/33
UPC: 075020005533
EAN: 0075020005533
ASIN: B001C3MHF0
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Sterilizes in 6 minutes, keeps contents sterile for up to 6 hours in mode 1 | | • | Sterilizes in 6 minutes, keeps contents sterile for up to 24 hours large capacity, in mode 2 | | • | Features with a large capacity that holds up to six 9-ounce Avent natural feeding bottles | | • | Fast and simple to use | | • | Digital display, electronic countdown and sound alerts |
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Product Description
The new AVENT iQ 24 Electronic Steam Sterilizer is the first intelligent steam sterilizer and is designed to communicate each phase of the sterilization cycle, so you stay informed. With features such as a digital display, electronic countdown and sound alerts, you can always be assured that contents are safe to use. The fast 6-minute cycle and optional 24-hour mode that keeps contents continuously sterile ensures contents are ready to use, day or night. A pause feature lets you remove some items without interrupting the cycle.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Simple and Trouble Free. November 15, 2008
Gary Peterson (San Diego, California USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Our newborn boy (now 6 weeks old) requires feeding about every 2 to 4 hours. That little task takes a lot of time and patience plus bottles, caps, nipples and other assorted items which are in continuous need of cleansing and care. We've set up a production line and the last item in the line is the Avent iQ 24 sterilizer.
The sterilizer is in operation off and on all day. It's simple to use and effective, as far as I can tell. It sure beats using the oven, that's for sure. It's been trouble free up to this point. I just put the stuff into the trays, add the water, turn it on and wait until the little electric tone tells me it's complete. What could be more simple? We are using the smaller bottles at present, but can easily switch to larger bottles as the baby grows. We use the sterilizer so steadily throughout the day that we've never used the long cycle. Our little baby-feeding cycle and production line seems to work fine. Now, if I could just get the feeding cycle extended to allow me adequate sleep.
Gary Peterson
 Dangerous ... I wouldn't use it as suggested... December 12, 2008
! Steffan Piper ! (Palm Desert, CA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This review will probably pull a lot of vitriol from the woodwork, but it must be done.
If you haven't been reading up, following the news or doing your own reading and research into the current Plastic BPA fiasco, and if you have a child and you are concerned, then you should be educating yourself.
You may have read that `BPA Plastics' are a safe alternative to other plastics that are being used for baby bottles, but the truth is always something simpler than advertising.
Whether folks want to admit it or not though, is another matter.
BPA plastic still leaches carcinogens which then get absorbed by the cells. Consider just that alone. It's the biggest suspect now for breast cancer as this stuff just loves fat tissue.
While they do leach smaller amounts, they still leach. Both the AMA's findings and the American Plastics Council's recommendations, equally suggest not subjecting the plastic to extreme temperature changes, like intense cold or intense heat as this will cause a molecular breakdown within the plastic thus causing it to leak. I don't really know how much more direct they can be about that, even though they still like to say that it's safe. The part they're not elaborating on is that: it is safe in its inert, marketed state. Once you start using the product however, you're bound to go against the recommendations.
Do you freeze baby milk in these plastic bottles or other plastic containers? You shouldn't. Plastic is leaching into the milk. You're using the plastic against the recommendations.
Do you microwave your milk in these plastic containers? You shouldn't be. Plastic leaches into the milk at its highest rate under these conditions. You're using the plastic against the recommendations.
Have you ever put your finger on a bowl in the microwave after just one minute, and the bowl is hotter than the food? What do you think is happening with the plastic in this scenario?
Do you even put the plastic bottle onto a warmer and warm it from the bottom up? You're using the plastic against the standard recommendations.
What do you do? USE GLASS. It's that simple.
If you use this product as suggested with BPA free plastic AVENT bottles (as evinced from the packaging) and sterilize them, you are heating them up far beyond the limitations specified and thus putting your infant in possible danger.
The Sterilizer needs to heat up to 270 degrees Fahrenheit for 3 minutes to kill bacteria. On Philip's own website they cite the device reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit, which is enough to compromise the plastic -- any plastic and the sterilizer goes for a full 6 minutes. The more times the procedure of sterilization is repeated, the more the plastic is compromised.
As a parent, it's just not a chance I'm willing to take. While company spokespeople will come out and tell you it's safe, and that the operating temperature is within the norm to not cause the molecular breakdown within the plastic, there is enough information readily available that elucidates the opposite. Any plastic exposed to an excess of 130 degrees Fahrenheit for just two minutes will render an altered surface at the molecular level. The more you submit the plastic bottles to sterilization, the more you are advancing the breakdown and the leaching.
A lot of people have switched from plastic to glass in large numbers on their own because of the obvious nature of the problem and the wide-spread reporting of the problem. Several retailers were sold out for months last year, but they have finally caught up with the demand.
If you're older than 30 years old, you're probably a person who was brought up on glass infant feeding bottles. While plastic feeding bottles were available in the late seventies, they didn't become common until the early to mid-eighties. I won't go into the numbers about certain widely-reported problems with infantile neurologic problems, but correlations can be made with the spike in the statistics and the widespread use of the plastic.
I'm not denigrating this product, so let's be clear on that point. I'm just against the suggested use of it being coupled with plastic bottles which is foolhardy in this day and age, especially since glass bottles, which are safe, aren't hard to come by. Philips seems to be putting themselves on the hook here with a concern of liability that they probably didn't fully consider. I sterilized my glass bottles (not the nipples or caps) and never had any problems in the 2 years in practice. The product by itself is convenient and easy to use but I strongly advise against using this with ANY type of plastic bottle loaded into the chamber.
If you have this product and you do wish to use it, then use it with small 4 oz. Gerber bottles, which are inexpensive, safe and readily available. Again -- only use with glass bottles and NOT the suggested `BPA Free' plastic bottles or any other plastic bottle available.
It's hard to be completely safe these days, but our parents had glass bottles, the large majority of us had glass bottles and therefore we should extend the courtesy to our own children as this is the most common feeding apparatus for the first two years.
It may be more convenient for some to buy and use plastic, but the glass bottles are sturdy, do not break or crack and are quick to come by now. If you're thinking "why would you give a child a glass bottle', then you're not thinking about it properly. If your child throws the bottle a lot, just buy a strap for the bottle which are also readily available and easily obtained.
My son hasn't had any issue or complaints yet, and my guess is neither did your mothers.
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 Doesn't seem to be what I thought it would be... November 27, 2008
Rachael P. (new york, ny United States)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
I thought I would be receiving the iQ24, but I received a large size plastic container type thing that goes in the microwave. It is pretty much like a big tupperware container that you put bottles in and then put in the microwave to sterilize. The directions say to wash the bottles with soapy water before using this contraption...so really I'm not sure why I'd need it. I don't have a dish washer so I guess it makes sure your bottles are sterlized properly, but if you use really hot water and give it a good wash then you wouldn't really need to go this extra step. But if you don't have the time or really need the bottles to be extra safe/clean, then I suppose giving them a quick wash and popping them in this container for the microwave could be helpful.
Good Hygenic Product by Philips Avent December 18, 2008
Nishant Agarwal (Calabasas, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
- This sterilizer runs on electricity. I am mentioning because there
are some on the market where you need to microwave. No more boiling
bottles on the stove :)
- The principle is simple, you fill water, electricity heats and
makes steam, which is supposed to sterilize by killing germs
- You need to rinse/clean the bottles before putting in, as this is not
a dishwasher (in fact even for dishwashers, you should rinse and
put dishes else the washer may go bad with clogged stuff)
- The sterlizer has two forms of output for user to know about
status of the process : 1. Digital Display and electronic countdown - shows useful info to indicate where you are at in either mode (6 mintue or 24 hour),even tells if too much water or too less water. It also uses
a scale of horizantal bars to indicate how long bottles
will remain sterlized inside once a cycle is done. Bars like:
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Three bars would mean 6 hours.
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two bars
and of course none.
3. Sound Alerts - lets you know when a cycle you are using is
done by audible beeps
- There are two cycles of sterlization: 1. 6 minute cycle - when
you want immediate turnaround, this is to be used
2. 24 hour mode - when you don't want immediately, but want to
get bottles periodically in a 24 hour period
- With any system which builds up steam or hot water flow,
there is chances of scaling of limesalts (whitish scales) building up.
Most people will use tap water I presume and not distilled water,
and hence you need to de-scale approximately monthly using a sachet of provided material sample, or citric acid (lemon or vinegar).
- It contains two storeys, an upper and lower basket container.
The upper can be for bottles, and lower for things like nipples,
pacifiers, etc.
- The build is good quality, comes in a nice box, would look
attractive as a gift. I do believe the price can be a bit lower
though, 90 bucks is a bit too much for this simple scientific idea
this product is based on. I am giving four stars instead of five
because of the cost.
- The Avent product line in general is a trustworthy and excellent
products.
Great time saver December 3, 2008
Mynana (Paterson, Wa)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wow this is so cool why didn't they have these when my kids were babies? Oh wait they didn't have microwaves then either. My grandaughter used this last night and it was so easy. She is such a germ freak that she sometimes scares me but she said she loved the fact that this was so easy AND so sterile. She told her husband she was going to town today and getting one of these and throw their other one away. She washed the babies bottles and put them into this and put it in the microwave and in no time at all had safe and clean bottles. She also liked the fact that she could sterilize the bottles and leave them in for 24 hours without contamination. This is according to the "germ freak" the best thing since cotton candy.
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