According to Pharmacopea for sterylisation .22 um filter is needed. It's beacuse only .22 um filter will remove all bacteria form solution. .45 filters are used to remove non-soluable compuunds - only for claryfication. Also very critical point is transfering sterile filtered solution to vials and crimping. You must have sterile vials, stoppers and flip-tops. Solution must be transfered from receiver bottle in sterile environment (clean room). But until we don't have clean rooms in our houses we must be very, very cearful. BA doesn't sterylise solution. It prevent growth of germs. Sterylisaton methods are:
1.dry heat sterylisation (160*C for 2h, 170*C for 1h, 180*C for 30 min - time is measured from point when material achieve diserable temp.)
2. autoclaving (121*C 0,1 MPa overpressure for 15min)
3. filtering (.22 um filters)
4. radiation (gamma from Cs137 or Co60 radionuclids)
5. chemical (ethylene oxide gas, glutaraldehyde etc)
So we can take from this list 1,3 and 5 metod.
First method for glass vials and glass rciever bottles. Take large clean bowl, fill with distilled water add 2,3 drop of detergent (something you use for washing dishes) and wash in it your vials, bottles etc. After that flush your bowl with water and fill with distilled water. Flush vials and other glass until it won't shave. Take clean and washed with 70% isoprohyl alcohol metal tray, put on it upsidedown your glass. Put it to the oven and bake in desired temp. for appropirate time. Bottles must stay in normal position for few minutes to evaporate water, after that wrap thread with aluminium foil and put to the oven.
When glass is baking you can use 5 method to sterylise stoppers and flip tops by washing in glutaraldehyde/baking soda/water solution 2/0,3/97,7 % for 3h at standrad temperature or in 70% isoprophyl alcohol for same time. Afters 3h flush it in sterile water. Fill clean glass pressure bottle with distilled water to half volume and close it. Put it on water bath for 2h. When rubber and flip tops are flushed and wet I put it in opened bowl to cooling oven to dry it. Rubbers are stored after drying in closed bowl which is opened only when i take rubber to put it on vial and crimp.
Filling vials in air is risky but all steps which we done and BA in gear should make our gear safe. I heard about people which don't wash vials and rubbers, don't filter gear only bake it and thet are alive and haven't any infection. Allright. Junkies even use many times one neddle to IV injections and they are alive. But we are not junkies. We live healthy lifestyle and develop our bodies and we don't want HCV or any other nasty diseases.
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