Gas sterilization
AssigneeUnited Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
InventorsChristopher N. Griffiths, David Raybone
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Abstract
A method of sterilising objects including the operations of activating a gaseous medium, ensuring that the activated medium is substantially free of charged species and exposing the object to be sterilised to the activated gaseous medium for a period sufficient to ensure that the object is sterilised.
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A method of sterilising articles by exposing them to a biologically active gaseous medium, comprising the operations of activating a gaseous medium to provide free radicals, and/or electronically and/or vibrationally excited species, ensuring that the activated gaseous medium is substantially free of electrically charged species, and exposing the article to be sterilised to only the charged-species-free activated gaseous medium for a period sufficient to ensure that the article is sterilised.
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