To protect patients against contagious diseases and infections, sterile and clean procedural and surgical hospital utensils is imperative. Therefore, central sterilization service departments (CSSDs) ...

Autoclave users can now have the effectiveness of their disinfection process verified. This service (upon request) is provided by EHS. Steam autoclaves (250F gravity or 270F pre-vacuum) are tested by ...

Sterilization validation must be based on a robust, quality-by-design philosophy; autoclave overkill cycles should be validated by correlating lethality data to support chosen critical process ...

Test apparatus for automatic salt sampling from a closed system in the autoclave laboratory ...