ES339794A1 - Procedure for the sterilization and packaging of products and sanitary and medical-surgical articles. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Procedure for the sterilization and packaging of sanitary and medical-surgical products and articles, characterized essentially by the fact of putting into practice an unitary or multiple opened container, of material of maximum imporosity and very impermeable and of suitable form and dimensions, the product or article that it is desired to supply to the market in the proper conditions of sterility, whose product can be of textile structure or be determined by surgical or analogous material, introducing, next, said container with its content in the inside a critically sterile enclosure, whose environment is preferably subjected to the action of germicidal lamps and in which an outside air stream enters, which is suitably filtered and then sterilized by other germicidal lamps or similar medium mounted in the duct of entry, penetrates the aforementioned enclosure pressure that prevails in the same, in order to constitute such air a barrier or obstacle to the polluted air that could enter the repeated enclosure by uncontrolled points, exposing the aforementioned open container with the material that it encloses to the effect of the vapor of water or other liquid, ozone or other microbicidal gas, also using germicidal lamps or penetrating or deep radiation, all these agents that determine the total destruction of spores (anaerobes, aerobes, and fungi) that could transport the materials treated, taking place in the mentioned sterile enclosure the eventual aggregation to the article or product of a impregnating or complementary substance and then making the hermetic sealing of the container, which, optionally, can be placed inside another protector for a better preservation of the assembly thus sterilized. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)