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Why is the verification dose experiment performed at a lower SAL than the sterilization dose?

April 26, 2017dose experiment lower Performed Sal sterilization verification

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Why is the verification dose experiment performed at a lower SAL than the sterilization dose?

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In order to test a dose for SAL 10-6, one million products would need to be irradiated and sterility tested. SAL 10-2 (Method 1) or SAL 10-1 (VDmax) is used because only 100 or 10 products, respectively, must be used for the experiment.