BS 3970-5:1990

Sterilizing and disinfecting equipment for medical products. Specification for low temperature steam disinfectors | Status: Withdrawn

1 Scope This Part of BS 3970 specifies particular requirements for disinfectors using a single specified operating cycle and using mains supplied steam. These requirements apply in addition to the general requirements specified in BS 3970-1. The disinfector specified is applicable to the disinfection of heat labile materials (see foreword).

NOTE 1 It is emphasized that equipment complying with this Part of BS 3970 is only designed to disinfect (see 2.2).

NOTE 2 The titles of the publications referred to in this standard are listed on the inside back cover.