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Spore News Vol. 13 No. 4: Mesa Labs’ Biological Indicator Division Relocation Update
Spore News Vol. 13 No. 3: Biological Indicators & the European Pharmacopoeia
Spore News Vol. 13 No. 2: A Review of the Newly Revised ISO 11138 Series on the Manufacture of Biological Indicators  
Spore News Vol. 13 No. 1: Biological Indicators & the United States Pharmacopeia
Spore News Vol. 12 No. 6: Introducing ExpoSure
Spore News Vol. 12 No. 5: Biological Indicator Selection
Spore News Vol. 12 No. 4: Product Profile: DriAmp Biological Indicator
Spore News Vol. 12 No. 3: Contract Studies
Spore News Vol. 12 No. 2: Process Challenge Devices
Spore News Vol. 12 No. 1: Biological Indicators and Their Relation to Standards Organizations
Spore News Vol. 11 No. 6: Bi Impossible
Spore News Vol. 11 No. 5: Impact of Change from Oxyfume to 100% EtO
Spore News Vol. 11 No. 4: Delayed Incubation, Part II: The DriAmp Product
Spore News Vol. 11 No. 3: Resistance Analysis of Mesophilic Spores to Ethylene Oxide Sterilization
Spore News Vol. 11 No. 2: Reduced Incubation Times for Biological Indicators
Spore News Vol. 11 No. 1: Taking the Mystery Out of Biological Indicator Storage
Spore News Vol. 10 No. 6: SEM Analysis of VPHP Biological Indicators
Spore News Vol. 10 No. 5: Sterilization Vocabulary
Spore News Vol. 10 No. 4: Effects of Delayed Incubation on BI Resistance
Spore News Vol. 10 No. 3: Superior Support for Superior Products
Spore News Vol. 10 No. 2: Total Viable Spore Counts
Spore News Vol. 10 No. 1: Organisms and Their Uses in Biological Indicators
Spore News Vol. 9 No. 6: Applications of Industrial Use BIs
Spore News Vol. 9 No. 5: End User— Proper BI Placement During VHP Decontamination Cycles
Spore News Vol. 9 No. 4: Using Replicate BIs to Evaluate Biodecontamination Cycles in Isolators
Spore News Vol. 9 No. 3: Parameters Effecting Vapor Hydrogen Peroxide BI Performance
Spore News Vol. 9 No. 2: Medical and Lab Waste Monitoring
Spore News Vol 9 No 1: Oxyfume Blends Vs. 100% EtO
Spore News Vol 8 No 5: Custom Biological Indicators
Spore News Vol 8 No 4: 3rd Party Spore News Part II
Spore News Vol 8 No 3: Caramelization or Darkening in the Color of Autoclaved Liquid BI Ampoules
Spore News Vol 8 No 2: The Problem with EP 7.0, 5.1.2
Spore News Vol 8 No 1: BI Label Claim Verification Testing by Third Party Part I
Spore News Vol 7 No 5: Steam Sterilization of Liquid Filled Containers
Spore News Vol 7 No 4: Read Out Times of Smart-Read EZTest Exposed at Elevated Temperatures
Spore News Vol 7 No 3: Introducing Process Challenge Device (PCD)
Spore News Vol 7 No 2: Evaluation of Fedegari Resistometer Using Three Spore-Forming Indicator Organisms
Spore News Vol 7 No 1: Understanding Biological Indicator Grow-Out Times
Spore News Vol 6 No 6: Defining Boundaries: The Beauty of a Self-Contained Biological Indicator (SCBI)
Spore News Vol 6 No 5: Disinfection Vs. Sterilization
Spore News Vol 6 No 4: How Long Should BIs be Incubated?
Spore News Vol 6 No 2: The Biological Indicator Spore Population has Minimal Impact on Resistance Performance
Spore News Vol 6 No 1: It’s Time to Take the Guesswork Out of Your Sterilization
Spore News Vol 5 No 6: Finding the “Worst Case” Location in Your Sterilization Load Just Got Easier
Spore News Vol 5 No 5: The Most Important Letter in SteriliZation is Z
Spore News Vol 5 No 4: Glassine Packaged Vs. Naked Carrier D-values
Spore News Vol 5 No 3: Heat Shock/Heat Activation
Spore News Vol 5 No 2: Air Removal from the Sterilization Chamber
Spore News Vol 5 No 1: Spores Do Not Have an Intrinsic D-value
Spore News Vol 4 No 6: Verification Testing With Different Media is a Waste of Time
Spore News Vol 4 No 5: Will Biological Indicator Spores Contaminate My Production Environment?
Spore News Vol 4 No 4: Reduced Incubation Time, What’s the Point?
Spore News Vol 4 No 3: The Quest for the Perfect D-value
Spore News Vol 4 No 2: Why Use Biological Indicators in Routine Sterilization?
Spore News Vol 4 No 1: Impact of Culture Media on Biological Indicator Spore Recovery
Spore News Vol 3 No 4: Steam-in-Place (SIP), the Problems and a New Solution
Spore News Vol 3 No 3: What is the D-ifference in D-value?
Spore News Vol 3 No 2: Z-Value Calculation
Spore News Vol 3 No 1: Calculation of the Biological Indicator D-value and Kill Time for a Temperature not Specified on the Certificate of Analysis
Spore News Vol 2 No 4: Spores Don’t Lie… and Probes Don’t Always Know (or Tell) the Truth
Spore News Vol 2 No 3: What Does the Survival/Kill Calculation on the Certificate of Analysis Really Indicate?
Spore News Vol 2 No 2: Selecting a Biological Indicator with Appropriate Resistance Performance to Monitor a Validated Sterilization Cycle
Spore News Vol 2 No 1: How Much Variation Should You Allow When You Specify a D-value?
Spore News Vol 1 No 5: Consistent Biological Indicators Require Clean Spores
Spore News Vol 1 No 4: The Importance of 16S rRNA Bacterial Spore Identification
Spore News Vol 1 No 3: Product D-Value Studies: A Critical Tool When Developing a Sterilization Process
Spore News Vol 1 No 2: Biological Indicator for Monitoring Low Temperature Steam Steriliization
Spore News Vol 1 No 1: Why Biological Indicators Survive a Validated Cycle