Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use - Part 2-040: Particular requirements for sterilizers and washer-disinfectors used to treat medical materials

IEC 61010-2-040:2020 RLV contains both the official IEC International Standard and its Redline version. The Redline version is not an official document, it is available in English only and provides you with a quick and easy way to compare all the changes between the official IEC Standard and its previous edition.
IEC 61010-2-040:2020 specifies safety requirements for electrical equipment intended for sterilization, washing, and disinfection of medical materials in the medical, veterinary, pharmaceutical and laboratory fields, when used under the environmental conditions of 1.4. Examples of such equipment include the following:

- sterilizers and disinfectors using steam and/or hot water as the sterilant;

- sterilizers and disinfectors using toxic gas, toxic aerosol or toxic vapour as the sterilant;

- sterilizers and disinfectors using hot air or hot inert gas as the sterilant; and

- washer-disinfectors.

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