A galley insert assembly for an aircraft galley comprises an insert body including a plurality of insert walls defining an interior space therein. The insert walls are configured to interface with a galley bay of an aircraft with the insert body inserted into the galley bay. A disinfection system is included within the interior space and a door is operatively connected to the insert walls.

System and method to reduce risk of patient infections (HAI), using operating rooms (chambers) equipped with suitable automatic airborne sterilizing agent generators, sensors, mechanisms, automatic air control devices, and laminar flow devices. After suitable safety checks, the system isolates the interior air from external air, and activates an air phase anti-microbial agent generator, filling the room with an air-phase anti-microbial agent. After sterilization, the invention deactivates the generator then restores the connection to outside sterilized air. The chamber also comprises an intelligent platform comprising video cameras, and computer vision systems configured to identify humans and medical supplies, read optical tags, and correlate recognized objects with RFID tag data. The intelligent platform can be configured to automatically detect and warn on conditions associated with a high risk of HAI, optimize the sterility of the chamber, automatically detect other operating room issues, and interface with outside computerized medical databases and facilities networks.

Methods of the present invention comprise photoinactivation of catalase in combination with low-concentration peroxide solutions and/or ROS generating agents to provide antibacterial effects.

Disclosed herein are cell processing systems, devices, and methods thereof. A system for cell processing may comprise a plurality of instruments each independently configured to perform one or more cell processing operations upon a cartridge, and a robot capable of moving the cartridge between each of the plurality of instruments.

A sterilization process test device for verifying the efficacy of a sterilization process includes a tubular body defining a chamber for containing at least one sterilization indicator and a cap to sealingly close the tubular body. The tubular body includes at least one hole, which is covered by a gas and steam permeable cover. The only flow path into the chamber is provided through the steam and gas permeable cover and the at least one hole, which when combined are configured to control and restrict a flow of steam or a gaseous sterilization medium from an external environment.

A shielding structure of an object sterilized by radiation. The object is a housing that accommodates an accommodated object therein and is formed of a shielding material that shields the radiation and secondary radiation that has a higher transparency than the radiation and is secondarily generated by the radiation, an exterior of the housing is sterilized by the radiation, and the radiation and the secondary radiation do not penetrate through the accommodated object.

A heating apparatus and a heating method for preforms are provided which eliminate poor sterilization of a mouth portion of a preform to which a disinfectant has been blown. The heating apparatus includes a heating section that heats the preform is provided with a mouth portion heating section, and a mouth portion of the preform is heated to a temperature in a range of 50° C. to 70° C.

Systems and methods are described for rapid sterilization of items in a vacuum or sterilization chamber. Embodiments include conductively heated, vacuum-based sterilization approaches that can be applied to devices, such as medical devices, electronic devices, and other suitable devices. For example, an item that has been exposed to excessive contamination is placed inside the sterilization chamber. The chamber can be depressurized to a vacuum level sufficient to gasify liquids inside a solid matrix holding a liquid sterilant, and the item can be conductively heated at least to replace latent heat of vaporization lost during the depressurization. Some embodiments include techniques relating to quality processing, monitoring and feedback control, and/or other functionality.

A system for decontamination of patient care equipment and a system for decontamination of an interior space. In some embodiments, a decontaminant distributor is provided in an enclosure and coupled to a decontaminant generator system. The decontaminant generator system may include a decontaminant generator removably coupled to the decontaminant distributor at an exterior of the enclosure for allowing the decontaminant generator to be removed and connected to another decontaminant distributor associated with another system for decontamination of patient care equipment. An air agitation system may be provided in the enclosure for agitating air and decontaminant in the enclosure. In some embodiments, a portable system may be transported to an interior space for decontaminating the items in the space using hot-air decontamination. A rack configuration for drying patient care equipment may include at least one duct having openings in a top and/or bottom surface thereof for directing pressurized dry air toward the patient care equipment.

A system can include a delivery manifold with orifice openings arranged asymmetrically. The system can include a pump configured to pressurize a (e.g., disinfecting) fluid to an ultra-high pressure (e.g., 9,000 to 50,000 PSI, 9,000 to 65,000 PSI, any pressure over 9,000 PSI, or any suitable pressure). The pressurized fluid can be expelled through a delivery manifold with asymmetrically arranged orifice openings. In some embodiments, this arrangement can release a dry disinfecting vapor into the air that can disinfect an environment, surface, or object without wetting the item to be disinfected.