AN INDICATOR, AND ASSOCIATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING THE SAME

Abstract: there are indicators, and associated management systems and methods using said indicators, particularly, though not necessarily exclusively, for use in medical sterilisation applications. the indicators have a planar strip-like body with indicator machine-readable information provided thereon. advantageously, the indicator machine-readable information is obscured from being read by a suitable reader device until the indicator, or a portion thereof comprising the indicator machine-readable information, is exposed to predetermined sterilisation condition/s thereby evidencing exposure to said sterilisation conditions.

Inventor(s): Noel Cedric FENSHAM, Ian Howard DUNT

CPC Classification: A61L2/28 (Devices for testing the effectiveness or completeness of sterilisation, e.g. indicators which change colour (apparatus involving enzymes or microorganisms ; methods involving enzymes or microorganisms ))

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