The use of spore strips for monitoring the sterilization of bottled fluids
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 83 (1), 121-125
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400025882
Abstract
SUMMARY: A bacterial spore test has been developed which enables the efficacy of the sterilizing cycle recommended by the British Pharmaceutical Codex (1973) for bottled fluids to be accurately monitored. During a 14-month period this test detected faults in 3.3% of the sterilizing cycles, representing five distinct episodes of sterilization failure that passed unnoticed by the conventional controls of physical measurements and sterility testing. There were no failures of sterilization as detected by conventional techniques which were not indicated by the spore test.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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