Monitoring of cleaning process

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2007-07-24

2007-07-24

Stinson, Frankie L. (Department: 1746)

Cleaning and liquid contact with solids

Apparatus

With alarm, signal, indicating, testing, inspecting,...

C134S05600D, C134S0580DL, C134S200000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10326041

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for monitoring a cleaning process for a medical device includes a cleaning chamber for receiving and cleaning the instrument with a cleaning liquid, a receiving well within the cleaning chamber, a removable soil standard receivable within the receiving well whereby to be exposed to the cleaning process within the cleaning chamber; and a soil detector coupled to the cleaning chamber and adapted to provide an indication of the amount of the soil on the soil standard while the soil standard is received within the receiving well.

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