GERMAN RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPS PLASMA STERILISATION TECHNIQUE
August 1st, 2013
A GERMAN government Central SME Innovation Programme (ZIM) for small-and-medium-sized business research will help sterilise thermo labile flexible endoscopes using atmospheric pressure plasma. It is funding research involving US-based Plasmatreat and Germany’s Cleaning Technology Institute (wfk) which aims to replace existing heat-based sterilisation for medical devices. “This method uses process gases to kill germs at lower temperatures and is harmless to the heat-sensitive components of endoscopes”, said Dr Alexander Knospe, of Plasmatreat. The programme ...
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