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NNadir

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2. The only case of which I'm personally aware is in sterilization. I once was involved...

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 24, 2021, 04:26 AM

Dec 2021

...in a project where a company was interested in seeing if vials of water for injection, sterilized with Co-60 exhibited extractable and leachable degradants.

I have often discussed with my son and others, continuous flow systems under supercritical conditions designed to degrade microplastic pollution, but to my knowledge, no one is doing it...yet.

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Currently, is plastic irradiated for industrial use, commercial use, or consumer use? Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #1

The only case of which I'm personally aware is in sterilization. I once was involved... NNadir Dec 2021 #2

Argh! Igel Dec 2021 #3

I regret that the access to the scientific literature that I am privileged to have is not more... NNadir Dec 2021 #4