title: Standard aeration for gas-sterilized plastics.
abstract: In an effort to provide guidelines for standardizing aeration times for plastics sterilized with ethylene oxide, an Aeration Index has been developed. Based on the rate of diffusion of ethylene oxide in selected polymers, the Index provides an indication of the aeration time at ambient temperature (23 degrees C) for the ethylene oxide concentration in freshly sterilized plastics to drop to 50 parts/10(6).
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D005027:Ethylene Oxide; D010969:Plastics / Q000592:standards*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000592:standards*; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D005027:Ethylene Oxide
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