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US 10,975,414 B2Granted
Decontamination surrogate microorganisms
AssigneeNovolyze Inc.
InventorsPablo Alvarez Martin, Karim-Franck Khinouche
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Abstract
The invention relates to the validation of decontamination processes and in particular to new surrogate organisms and mixtures of said microorganisms used for validating the decontamination processes.
Claims14
A process for controlling contamination of a medium the process comprising:
- a) adding at least one indicator microorganism to the medium;
- b) performing a decontamination process to the medium of step a);
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- c) determining the presence of the indicator microorganism at the end of the decontamination process;
- wherein the absence of the indicator microorganism at the end of the decontamination process confirms that contamination is controlled;
- wherein the at least one indicator microorganism is selected from Enterobacter hormaechei CNCM I-5058, Enterobacter mori CNCM I-5060, Pantoea calida CNCM I-5061, Envinia persicina CNCM I-5062, Envinia persicina CNCM I-5063, Pantoea calida CNCM I-5056, and mixtures thereof .
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