The increasing demands with regard to storage, transport, cleaning and sterilisation of instruments require the use of # exible and easily insertable racks ensuring the ! xation and protection of the instruments and optimum accessibility at the same time. The Bissinger CARE system comprises a large number of these racks which may be easily adapted to di " erent instruments. They may be used in the complete instrument cycle, i.e. for cleaning, sterilisation and instrumentation, and match with the standardized baskets