title: BASICS OF STERILE COMPOUNDING: Sterilization Methods in Sterile Product Manufacturing.
abstract: Sterilization methods to produce sterile preparations include heat, gas, radiation, and filtration. This article focuses on heat, gas, and radiation sterilization, plus a brief introduction to bright-light sterilization. Microbiology basics and microbial death kinetics, key to understanding why these sterilization methods work, will also be briefly discussed. Filtration sterilization will be covered in a separate article.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Akers
mesh_terms: D004339:Drug Compounding / Q000592:standards*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods*