{"id":629,"date":"2016-03-16T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priorclavena.wpengine.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2020-01-30T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:18:53","slug":"sterilizing-prion-contaminated-waste-just-11-e-z-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/2016\/03\/16\/sterilizing-prion-contaminated-waste-just-11-e-z-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterilizing Prion-Contaminated Waste in Just 11 E-Z Steps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/autoclave-customers\/autoclaves-facility-managers-service-techs\/\">facility<\/a> regularly handling prions needs a good sterilization protocol. Reliable sources suggest the following minimum inactivation protocol for prion-exposed items:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Carefully place prion-contaminated item in appropriate autoclave waste bag<\/li>\n<li>Place bag in properly sized solid-bottomed autoclave tray<\/li>\n<li>Place tray in autoclave<\/li>\n<li>Close autoclave lid<\/li>\n<li>Process load at 132\u00b0C for 1 hour in a gravity displacement sterilizer<\/li>\n<li>Open autoclave lid<\/li>\n<li>Carefully remove tray from autoclave<\/li>\n<li>Place tray in hermetically sealed titanium transfer vessel<\/li>\n<li>Carefully transport transfer vessel to nearest launch port<\/li>\n<li>Blast vessel into outer space<\/li>\n<li>Remotely guide vessel into nearest active stellar remnant, white dwarf or larger<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Prions Are Tough Stuff<\/h2>\n<p>All levity aside, prions are notorious for their extreme resistant to inactivation. But according to the CDC, many inactivation protocols used in health care facilities are extrapolated from research and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/prions\/cjd\/infection-control.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never rigorously evaluated<\/a>.\u00a0 Since we now know that <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plospathogens\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.ppat.1000206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prion strains harmful to humans are among the most resilient<\/a>, it\u2019s pretty clear that Giles et al. hit the nail on the head when they wrote: \u201cPrion inactivation procedures need to be validated directly against the prion strains for which they are intended to be used.\u201d\u00a0 Prion infections are rare, but guesswork just isn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p><em>[photo credit:\u00a0NIAID\/ Rocky Mountain Laboratories]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any facility regularly handling prions needs a good sterilization protocol. Reliable sources suggest the following minimum inactivation protocol for prion-exposed items: Carefully place prion-contaminated item in appropriate autoclave waste bag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,150,151,16],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autoclaves","tag-cdc","tag-prions","tag-sterilization"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sterilizing Prion-Contaminated Waste in Just 11 E-Z Steps! | Priorclave NA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/2016\/03\/16\/sterilizing-prion-contaminated-waste-just-11-e-z-steps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sterilizing Prion-Contaminated Waste in Just 11 E-Z Steps! | Priorclave NA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Any facility regularly handling prions needs a good sterilization protocol. 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