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AAMI 11140 1 2014

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ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11140-1:2014 – Sterilization of health care products – Chemical indicators – Part 1: General requirements

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AAMI 2014 41
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Specifies performance requirements for indicators that show exposure to sterilization processes by means of physical and/or chemical change of substances.

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1 ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11140-1:2014, Sterilization of healthcare products—Chemical indicators—Part 1: General requirements
2 Objectives and uses of AAMI standards and recommended practices
3 Title page
4 AAMI Standard
Copyright information
5 Contents
6 Glossary of equivalent standards
7 Committee representation
9 Background of AAMI adoption of ISO 11140-1:2014
10 Foreword
11 Introduction
13 1 Scope
2 Normative references
14 3 Terms and definitions
16 4 Categorization
4.1 General
Table 1 — Categories according to intended use
17 4.2 Type 1: process indicators
4.3 Type 2: indicators for use in specific tests
4.4 Type 3: single critical process variable indicators
4.5 Type 4: multicritical process variable indicators
4.6 Type 5: integrating indicators
4.7 Type 6: emulating indicators
5 General requirements
20 Figure 1—Symbol for designation for use with a specific test load only
6 Performance requirements
6.1 General
6.2 Type 1 indicators
21 6.3 Type 2 indicators
6.4 Types 3, 4, 5 and 6 indicators
7 Test methods
7.1 General
7.2 Off-set (transference)
7.3 Procedure — Steam indicators
22 7.4 Procedure — Dry heat indicators
7.5 Procedure — EO indicators
23 7.6 Procedure — Low temperature steam and formaldehyde indicators
7.7 Procedure — Vaporized hydrogen peroxide indicators
24 8 Additional requirements for process (Type 1) indicators
8.1 Process indicators printed or applied on to packaging material
8.2 Process indicators for steam sterilization processes
Table 2 — Test and performance requirements for Type 1 process indicators for
8.3 Process indicators for dry heat sterilization processes
25 8.4 Process indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes
Table 4 — Test and performance requirements for Type 1 process indicators for
8.5 Process indicators for radiation sterilization processes
26 Table 5 — Test and performance requirements for Type 1 process indicators for IRRAD
8.6 Process indicators for low temperature steam and formaldehyde sterilization processes
Table 6 — Test conditions and performance requirements for Type 1 process indicators for FORM
27 8.7 Process indicators for vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilization processes
Table 7 — Test conditions and performance requirements for Type 1 process indicators for
9 Additional requirements for single critical process variable (Type 3) indicators
10 Additional requirements for multicritical process variable (Type 4) indicators
28 Table 8 — Test and performance requirements for Type 3 and Type 4 indicators
11 Additional requirements for steam integrating (Type 5) indicators
29 12 Additional requirements for ethylene oxide integrating (Type 5) indicators
Table 9 — Test and performance requirements for Type 5 indicators
13 Additional requirements for emulating (Type 6) indicators
30 Table 10 — Test and performance requirements for Type 6 indicators
31 Annex A: Method for demonstrating shelf-life of the product
32 Annex B: Examples of testing indicators
B.1 Example of testing single critical process variable (Type 3) indicator for dry heat processes
B.2 Example of testing multicritical process variable indicator for steam processes
B.3 Example of testing emulating (Type 6) indicators for steam processes
33 Annex C: Rationale for the requirements for integrating indicators and the link to the requirements for biological indicators specified in ISO 11138 (all parts) and microbial inactivation
C.1 Steam
C.1.1 General
C.1.2 Background information
34 Figure C.1—Type 5 plot
35 C.2 The link between the integrating indicator SV and BI inactivation
C.2.1 Accept or pass (end point attained) criteria
C.2.2 Reject or fail (end point not attained) criteria
36 C.3 The response of the integrating indicator at different temperatures and the relationship to the biological indicator’s z-value
37 C.4 Ethylene oxide
39 Annex D: Rationale for the liquid-phase test method for low temperature steam and formaldehyde indicators
D.1 General
D.2 The low temperature steam and formaldehyde process
D.3 Chemical indicators
40 Annex E: Relationship of indicator and indicator system components
Figure E.1 — Relationship of indicator and indicator system components
41 Bibliography
AAMI 11140 1 2014
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