Patients Ask: Is High-Level Disinfection Enough?
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Patients Ask: Is High-Level Disinfection Enough?

In October 2024, after Vanderbilt Health notified an unspecified number of patients that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C during endoscopy procedures, patients and healthcare workers across the country took notice. Many asked whether the current standard of care for endoscope decontamination, high-level disinfection (HLD), is adequate to ensure…

How does Andersen’s Ethylene Oxide – Flexible Chamber Technology (EO-FCT) sterilization process work?
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How does Andersen’s Ethylene Oxide – Flexible Chamber Technology (EO-FCT) sterilization process work?

Ethylene Oxide – Flexible Chamber Technology is Andersen’s proprietary and award-winning sterilization process. It is shared by the Andersen Anprolene and EOGas 4 models. 

Andersen Sterilizers & Andersen Scientific First Awardee in FDA’s 510(k) Ethylene Oxide Sterility Change Master File Pilot Program
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Andersen Sterilizers & Andersen Scientific First Awardee in FDA’s 510(k) Ethylene Oxide Sterility Change Master File Pilot Program

HAW RIVER, N.C. – Andersen Sterilizers and its sister company, contract sterilization specialist Andersen Scientific, were awarded the very first master file in the FDA’s 510(k) Ethylene Oxide (EO) Sterility Change Master File Pilot Program. “This master file award from the FDA makes it official, switching to Andersen from a traditional sterilization method just got…

Laparoscopic spay developer raves about EO’s ROI and ability to sterilize with zero damage
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Laparoscopic spay developer raves about EO’s ROI and ability to sterilize with zero damage

John Small, owner and president of Biovision Veterinary Endoscopy, LLC, was kind enough to sit down with us at VMX 2023 to talk about how Andersen sterilizers provide quick ROI and sterilize with zero damage – two key features that make his product affordable for veterinarians.