Isolator Decontamination Using Chlorine Dioxide Gas

Abstract

he use of isolation technology in the United States and Eu-rope is beginning to show signs of widespread acceptanceand growth.With the increased use of isolators for criticalprocesses comes a demand for better and quicker decont-amination methods.Fueling the growth of chlorine dioxide (CD)in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries are its prop-erties as a true gas at ambient temperatures,its capacity to be un-affected by temperature variations and gradients, and its tightprocess consistency because concentrations can be precisely mon-itored and controlled.