AAMI Offers Course on Industrial Sterilization for Medical Devices
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) will hold a four-day course May 16-19, 2017 covering sterilization processing in a medical device manufacturing environment. Topics addressed include sterilization technologies and methods, sterilization standards, FDA requirements, and critical factors in product design and product release decisions. Recommended for those who are relatively new to the sterilization process environment and need information to help them better understand the principles and science of industrial sterilization. The course will be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Minneapolis Park Place in Minneapolis.
This program is recommended for professionals relatively new to the sterilization process environment who need information to help them better understand the principles and science of sterilization. This course is designed for design and process engineers, operations managers and technicians, corporate quality assurance and regulatory compliance personnel, or others directly involved in sterilization processes and responsible for meeting industry standards and FDA requirements.
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Source: AAMI
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