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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Deger C. Tunc, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Stryker Technologies Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/20 ;
Abstract
A method for reducing residual ethylene oxide levels in sterilized goods by reacting the residual ethylene oxide with water after the sterilization reaction is completed, thus converting some of the ethylene oxide into ethylene glycol according to the formula (I):