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Novel and emerging sterilisation technologies

9 October 2009 | By Dr Edward Tidswell, Senior Director of Sterility Assurance, Baxter Healthcare; Ash Khorzad, Sterile Manufacturing Support Group Manager and Mike Sadowski, Director of Sterile Product Manufacturing Support, Baxter Healthcare Corporation

The increasing number and diversity of traditional patient therapies, medical devices, and combinatorial products has created an increasing world-wide interest in the innovation of novel sterilisation technologies. In contrast to traditional moist heat sterilisation processes, emerging technologies are diverse, predominantly reliant on physical processes, involve multiple mechanisms of microbial inactivation…