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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

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Archive > March, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 3

Finding the Right Reprocessor for Your Flexible Endoscopes

Evaluate the alternatives as you heed the FDA's call to replace the Steris System 1.

Irene Tsikitas, Associate Editor

If you own a Steris System 1 tabletop liquid chemical processor, you have until Aug. 2, 2011, to buy a replacement, says the Food and Drug Administration, which issued a safety advisory — not a recall — warning that it hadn't approved or cleared the SS1 in its currently marketed form and that it couldn't guarantee that the company's claims about its safety or efficacy were accurate.

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