Sterile Processing

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) announces that the Industrial Ethylene Oxide Sterilization for Medical Devices Workshop, a three-day, highly interactive advanced workshop, will be held October 4-6, 2010 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta.

Censis® Technologies, Inc., developer of Censitrac surgical instrument tracking systems, has introduced ScopeTrac, an endoscope tracking and reprocessing data management solution designed to help prevent inappropriate endoscope reprocessing.

With municipal water in the United States and across the globe requiring disinfection to eradicate microbes such as cryptosporidium and giardia, new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan indicates that the ultraviolet water and wastewater disinfection systems market earned revenues of $388.3 million in 2008, and estimates this to reach $629.8 million in 2015.