What are Class A and Class B sterilizers?

Ethylene oxide sterilization cabinets are classified as Class A and Class B. The standard definitions are:

Class A sterilizers - user-programmable sterilizers, suitable for sterilization in the industrial production of medical devices.

Class B sterilizers - size-limited sterilizers with one or more preset duty cycle cycles, suitable for sterilization of clinical medical devices.

Commonly known as Class A sterilizers are commonly used by medical device manufacturers sterilizers, larger size, sterilizing temperature, pressure, time adjustable, based on product characteristics, sterilization process set by the use of manufacturers, through the confirmation of sterilization process to ensure that a higher degree of freedom, suitable for industrial batch sterilization.

Category B sterilizer factory several groups of manufacturers preset sterilization cycle parameters, but also by the sterilizer supplier combined with the design parameters of the product to be sterilized, but the factory can not be set freely, generally suitable for hospitals to repeat sterilization of surgical instruments with a single pot of sterilized finished product high amount, the product limitations are large.