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Items that are used inside the mouth or other mucosal surfaces such as film holders, bite blocks and laryngeal airway devices are considered semi-critical. According to CDC guidelines such items preferably should be heat sterilized or at a minimum disinfected using high-level disinfectant processes (gluteraldehyde, peracetic acid, ethylene oxide gas, etc.). Vital Defense-D is an…

When cleaning using a modern vapor degreaser, the oils and dirt concentrate in the boil sump.  When the soil level gets to a pre-described level, the operator conducts a boildown to minimize the amount of dirty cleaning fluid to be changed out of the system.  

3M recently announced their withdrawal from the PFAS chemicals market. In this IPC APEX Expo interview MicroCare CEO Tom Tattersall and Global SMT Editor-In Chief, Trevor Galbraith discuss the complicated and often misunderstood, topic of PFAS chemicals and how they impact the environment. The biggest takeaway? It’s time to move on from 3M Novec fluids,…