Ozone for High Level Decontamination and Sterilisation of Medical Single Use Devices

目前的赠款将允许Anacail有限公司通过建立一个原理证明机器来验证产品概念，该机器可以对一次性使用的医疗设备进行灭菌，同时在制造时将其包装在密封的初级包装中。该技术基于臭氧，一种天然存在的氧的同素异形体，一旦灭菌完成，就会衰变回天然氧。这使得该技术对环境无害。该技术在利用Anacail IP产生臭氧和不可燃气体成分方面是新颖的，避免了使用纯氧产生臭氧。市场对此类器械的需求是所有医疗器械和医疗保健器械无菌性的共同要求。传统的技术，如辐射或环氧乙烷，要么对材料造成损害，要么会在设备上留下有毒残留物。现代医疗和保健设备在先进材料和表面处理以及电子和光学集成方面的日益复杂化加剧了这些缺点。这项技术对社会的好处是减少医疗保健获得性感染的发生率。

The current grant will allow Anacail Ltd to validate a product concept by building a proof of principle machine which can sterilize single use medical devices, and simultaneously pack them in a sealed primary pack, at point of manufacture. The technology is based on ozone, a naturally occurring allotrope of oxygen, which, once the sterilization is complete, decays back into native oxygen. This renders the technology environmentally benign. The technology is novel in leveraging Anacail IP around ozone generation and a non-flammable gas composition, which avoids the use of pure oxygen for ozone generation. The market need for such a device is the common requirement across all medical devices and healthcare devices for sterility. Traditional techniques such as radiation or ethylene oxide are either damaging to materials, or can leave toxic residues on devices. The increasing sophistication of modern medical and healthcare devices in terms of advanced materials and surface treatments and the integration of electronics and optics, exacerbates these drawbacks. The benefit to society for this technology is to reduce the incidence of healthcare acquired infections.