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Standard aeration for gas-sterilized plastics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. D. White
J. D. White
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, G42 9TY
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In an effort to provide guidelines for standardizing aeration times for plastics sterilized with ethylene oxide, an Aeration Index has been developed. Based on the rate of diffusion of ethylene oxide in selected polymers, the Index provides an indication of the aeration time at ambient temperature (23°C) for the ethylene oxide concentration in freshly sterilized plastics to drop to 50 parts/106.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , October 1977 , pp. 225 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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