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  • BS EN ISO 18472:2006

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    Sterilization of health care products. Biological and chemical indicators. Test equipment and methods

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Superseded date:  01-10-2018

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  30-06-2006

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Foreword
    Introduction
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 Performance requirements for resistometers
      4.1 Intended use
      4.2 Measurement and control capabilities
      4.3 Test methods
      4.4 Leak test
      4.5 Steam resistometer performance requirements
      4.6 Ethylene oxide resistometer performance requirements
      4.7 Dry heat (heated air) resistometer performance
          requirements
      4.8 Vaporized hydrogen peroxide process resistometer
          performance requirements
    5 Recording systems
      5.1 Measurement systems
      5.2 Calibration
    6 Documentation
      6.1 General
      6.2 Minimum information
    Annex A (informative) Additional performance characterization
            - Steam
    Annex B (informative) Additional performance characterization
            - Ethylene oxide
    Annex C (informative) Additional performance characterization
            - Dry heat
    Annex D (informative) Resistometer documentation and derivations
    Bibliography

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    Specifies the requirements for test equipment to be used to test chemical and biological indicators for steam, ethylene oxide, dry heat and vaporized hydrogen peroxide processes for conformity to the requirements given in ISO 11140-1 for chemical indicators, or the requirements given in the ISO 11138 series for biological indicators.

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    Committee CH/198
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Superseded
    Superseded By

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    ISO 11138-3:2017 Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 3: Biological indicators for moist heat sterilization processes
    ISO 10013:1995 Guidelines for developing quality manuals
    ISO 11140-3:2007 Sterilization of health care products — Chemical indicators — Part 3: Class 2 indicator systems for use in the Bowie and Dick-type steam penetration test
    ISO 11138-2:2017 Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 2: Biological indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes
    ISO 11140-1:2014 Sterilization of health care products Chemical indicators Part 1: General requirements
    ISO 11140-4:2007 Sterilization of health care products — Chemical indicators — Part 4: Class 2 indicators as an alternative to the Bowie and Dick-type test for detection of steam penetration
    IEC 60751:2008 Industrial platinum resistance thermometers and platinum temperature sensors
    ISO 11140-5:2007 Sterilization of health care products — Chemical indicators — Part 5: Class 2 indicators for Bowie and Dick-type air removal tests
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