Sterilization Methods and the Comparison of E-Beam Sterilization with Gamma Radiation Sterilization

Sterilization is used in a varity of industry field and a strictly required process for some products used in sterile regions of the body like some medical devices and parenteral drugs. Although there are many kinds of sterilization methods according to physicochemical properties of the substances, the use of radiation in sterilization has many advantages depending on its substantially less toxicity. The use of radiation in industrial field showed 10-15% increase per every year of the previous years and by 1994 more than 180 gamma irradiation institutions have functioned in 50 countries. As principle radiosterilization utilizes ionizing radiation and is a terminal sterilization method.