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US 6,143,805 AGranted
Electron beam sterilization of liquid adhesive compositions
AssigneeClosure Medical Corporation
InventorsTimothy Hickey, Ubonwan A. Stewart
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Abstract
A method for sterilizing a liquid adhesive composition includes subjecting the composition to electron beam irradiation while it is enclosed in a container.
Claims26
A method for sterilizing a liquid monomeric adhesive composition, comprising:
- placing said composition into a container, and
- subjecting said container to electron beam irradiation at a dose sufficient to sterilize said composition,
- wherein said subjecting step causes substantially no initiation of polymerization of the liquid adhesive composition and said sterilization is sufficient to render said composition suitably sterile for application to open wounds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.