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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2003
Applicant:
Lawrence A. Shimp, Morganville, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Lawrence A. Shimp, Morganville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Osteotech, Inc., Eatontown, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/28 (2006.01); A01N 1/00 (2006.01); A01N 1/02 (2006.01); C12N 13/00 (2006.01); B65B 55/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided for sterilizing and/or deactivating adventitious agent(s) on and/or within a biological material which comprises packaging the biological material, altering the original atmosphere associated with the biological material in order to reduce the level of oxygen to which the biological material is exposed and subjecting the packaged biological material with its altered atmosphere to irradiation.