title: Purity issues require a cool head.
abstract: According to water purification equipment suppliers, estates and facilities teams are now increasingly involved in specifying, purchasing, configuring, and maintaining the sophisticated equipment required to clean and disinfect endoscopes, and, more especially, the water purification equipment needed to ensure an effective "clean". However, changing guidelines on the levels of water purity required for thorough "reprocessing", varying standards of incoming mains water, and differing opinions on which sanitisation methods best combat bacteria, make it vital that they fully understand the issues before specifying potentially costly purification equipment which may otherwise not perform quite as expected.
mesh_terms: D004203:Disinfection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000458:organization & administration; D019723:Endoscopes / Q000382:microbiology*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006113:United Kingdom; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*