title: [Sterile packing materials for formaldehyde sterilization].
abstract: Apart from the already widely applied sterilization by ethylene oxide, the sterilization by gaseous formaldehyde is another reliable procedure for the sterilization of thermolabile instruments. An essential advantage of the sterilization by gaseous formaldehyde over the so-called wet sterilization is that it can be performed in a recontamination-proof sterile packing. Packing materials produced in the GDR, the germ-tightness and toxicological safety of which were already known, were tested to evaluate their suitability for sterilization by gaseous formaldehyde. An appropriate packing variant was found and tested for microbiological reliability.
mesh_terms: D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D005557:Formaldehyde; D010539:Permeability; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D005557:Formaldehyde
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen von Sterilverpackungsmaterialien für die Formaldehyd-Sterilisation.