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Author: Alpa Patel





October 7, 2022

Changes Related to Cleaning Validations

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) recently released the first cleaning validation standard for medical device manufactures, ANSI/AAMI ST98:2022 Cleaning validation of healthcare products—Requirements for development and validation of a cleaning process for medical devices. This new standard that...

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May 24, 2022

Lessons from the Lab eBook

This eBook addresses common challenges and best practices for medical-device manufacturers with questions about testing their products. Table of Contents: EO Optimization and Potential Effects on Sterile-Barrier Packaging Patient-Specific Implants Often Require More Testing Extractable Chemical Characterization and Risk Assessment:...

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February 22, 2022

Reusable Advices For Reusable Medical Devices eBook

Ensuring that reusable medical devices can be properly cleaned, disinfected, and/or sterilized is imperative to ensure patient safety and to minimize healthcare-acquired infections, corrective actions, and recalls. Regulatory agencies and healthcare facilities are increasingly concerned about the spread of diseases,...

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February 9, 2022

What About the Chemicals Used in Reprocessing Reusable Medical Devices?

There is a critical piece of reprocessing validations that has been largely overlooked for a long time: the cleaning chemicals. The devices and instruments used for the validations tend to get most of the attention. Recently Alpa Patel, Principal Scientist...

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December 7, 2021

Which parameters must be validated during a steam sterilization validation?

Understanding the sterility assurance level To understand how steam sterilization processes are validated, it is important to understand some key concepts about sterilization. The purpose of sterilization is to inactivate microbiological contaminants, thereby rendering products sterile[1]. The kinetics of inactivation...

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