| 摘要 |
Processes and apparatus for functioning, subsequent to exposure to a designated microbial-biocidal treatment-cycle, for automated measurement, reporting, and recording, along with treatment-cycle data, for verifying effectiveness of each such treatment-cycle, by automatically monitoring a respective biological-indication (B-I) Test Ampoule for such a cycle. Prior burdensome requirements on personnel, in establishing and evaluating bacterial-lethality, and documenting all relevant steps and data are eliminated; while enabling accurate and prompt evaluations of bacterial-lethality. B-I Test-Ampoules types having differing sizes and configurations are evaluated in respective housing-structure test-cell receptacles, each having a correlated size and configuration with that of the respective Test-Ampoule; which augments establishing the culturing temperature required for the B-I Test Ampoule being evaluated. Further, evaluation of a treatment-cycle failure can be expedited by use of either a Colormetric Technology or Spectroscopic Technology radiant-energy embodiment to determine surviving microbe, if any, activity within about three to five hours after initiating culturing testing, in place of the usual time of about forty hours for completing evaluation without these technologies.
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