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Q: What type of EM radition is used to sterilize food and medical instruments?
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Who regulates surgical and medical instruments?

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation.


What is food sterilization?

Sterilization is the process of destroying microorganisms from food, medical instruments, etc.


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boiling the food will kill bacteria but the spore cant survive.If you want to sterilize foods a presure cocking can work fine.15 after that the water has boiled all bacteria and viruses also spores will be killed.


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Can you sterilize food by heating it in microwave for 4 minutes is a fly landed in it?

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When should you use scalding temperatures?

When you want to pasteurize foods and to sterilize food containers, flatware, dishes.


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How to sterilize bathrooms with ozone?

Methods of using ozone have been developed which sterilize instruments and medical wastes, oxidize, organics found in wastewater, clean laundry, break down contaminants in soil into a form more readily digested by microbes, kill microorganisms present in food products, and destroy toxins present in food products. The preferred methods for killing microorganism and destroying toxins use pressurized, humidified, and concentrated ozone produced by an electrochemical cell.


What temperature is required to heat sterilize food containers?

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Will slow cooking meat cook out all of the bacteria on questionable meat?

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