Temperature Levels in Hot-air Ovens

Abstract

During the past few years the popularity of hot- air ovens for sterilizing has been increasing. This is partly due to the ease with which they sterilize small objects such as syringes, and partly because they are inexpensive to run. At the same time autoclaves, which appear to be popular in America, proved to be difficult to obtain in this country after the war, and were often large and cumbersome; they also required skilled handling. The intro- duction of syringe services has led to increasing numbers of hot-air ovens being used for steriliza- tion, and it was primarily because of the formation of a syringe service in this area that the present investigations were undertaken.