Abstract
Copyright: © 2014 Shintani H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Decimal reduction value (D value) is approved in ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards of 11138-1 (Sterilization of health care products-Biological indicators, Part 1: General requirement), 11138-2 (Part 2: Biological indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes) and 11138-3 (Part 3: Biological indicators for moist heat sterilization processes) are 2.5-3.5 min for ethylene oxide sterilization and 1.5-2.5 min for moist heal sterilization. In addition, recovered population should be –50 to +300% of the labeled value (ISO 11138-1,2,3).
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