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Disinfection

April 21, 2023

Candida Auris Surge: Highlighting the Importance of Surface Disinfection

Candida auris (C. auris) is an emerging fungal pathogen that has recently risen to public notoriety as an increasing cause of hospital-acquired, or nosocomial, infections. The fungus can cause severe infections that are difficult to treat. Furthermore, it has been...

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August 25, 2021

Can manual cleaning and disinfection be combined into a one-step process?

ISO17664:2017[1] notes that disinfection can be carried out concurrently with manual cleaning of a medical device but does not provide any additional guidance. On the other hand, FDA specifies that cleaning steps should be validated separately and independently from disinfection...

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October 15, 2014

Nelson Laboratories Scientist Provides Clarification on Tissue Bank Cleaning Validations

Nelson Laboratories, Inc. Alpa Patel, senior scientist in healthcare reprocessing, presented at the annual American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) meeting last month on the topic of Equipment Cleaning and Disinfection Validations, something she calls, “the tissue industry’s compliance challenge.”...

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May 15, 2014

Importance of Cleaning and Sterilization Validations, Even When they may Not be Required

Department Scientist-Healthcare Reprocessing I recently attended the 10th Annual FDA and Changing Paradigm for HCT/P Regulation Conference, with my colleague Wendy Wangsgard, Department Scientist, Bioburden. We presented topics of interest that have surfaced the validation realm, in addition to learning...

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May 14, 2014

AAMI Sterilization Standards Meeting Update on Processing of Reusable Medical Devices

On April 14-16, 2014, I attended the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) semi-annual Sterilization Standards Meeting. These Association meetings, and the standards discussed during them, have a major impact on medical device manufacturers, testing facilities, HCF managers,...

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