WaterEco® Series now a registered trademark of Consolidated Sterilizer Systems Written by: Scott Mechler BS Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineer Consolidated Sterilizer Systems was recently awarded trademark protection for its WaterEco® steam sterilizer water saving systems. All WaterEco® systems are designed to save energy and reduce utility consumption on new and existing autoclaves. These systems assist architects and facility planners in creating more energy efficient buildings thereby lowering the aggregate environmental impact and obtaining LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) credits for a variety of laboratory and vivarium projects. Tweet Like Share
WaterEco® Series now a registered trademark of Consolidated Sterilizer Systems Written by: Scott Mechler BS Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineer Consolidated Sterilizer Systems was recently awarded trademark protection for its WaterEco® steam sterilizer water saving systems. All WaterEco® systems are designed to save energy and reduce utility consumption on new and existing autoclaves. These systems assist architects and facility planners in creating more energy efficient buildings thereby lowering the aggregate environmental impact and obtaining LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) credits for a variety of laboratory and vivarium projects. Tweet Like Share
7.12.23 Cordyceps Sterilization: How to Kill “The Last of Us” Parasite → In HBO’s recent adaptation of “The Last of Us,” a popular action-adventure video game, life as we know it is upended by a parasitic fungus that transforms its human hosts into zombies. The culprit? Cordyceps, a real-life genus of fungus which is best known for infecting insects (most famously ants) in much the same manner […]
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6.22.23 Sterilization vs. High-Level and Low-Level Disinfection [a 3-Point Comparison] → In a 1939 paper, microbiologist Earle H. Spaulding introduced a system for determining which medical devices and instruments needed disinfection and which ones required sterilization. In it, he proposed that critical instruments would need to be subjected to more stringent disinfection protocols than non-critical patient care items. Today, this framework is fittingly known as Spaulding […]