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VOL 15, ISSUE 1

## [Why perform a Product D-value Study? Part 1](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/product-d-value-study)

## [Impact of Culture Media on Biological Indicator Spore Recovery](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/culture-media-and-bi-spore-recovery)

## [Glassine Packaged Vs. Naked Carrier D-values](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/glassline-packaged-naked-carrier-d-values)

## [Heat Shock/Heat Activation](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/heat-shock-heat-activation)

## [Why Use Biological Indicators in Routine Sterilization?](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/bis-in-routine-sterilization)

## [The Most Important Letter in SteriliZation is Z](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/z-value-biological-indicators)

## [Spores Don’t Lie… and Probes Don’t Always Know (or tell) the Truth](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/spore-sterilization-performance)

## [What does the Survival/Kill Calculation on the Certificate of Analysis Really Indicate?](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/survive-kill-calculation)

## [Z-Value Calculation](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/z-value-calculation)

## [Air Removal from the Sterilization Chamber](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/removing-air-from-sterilization-chambers)

## [Taking the ‘‘Mystery” Out of Biological Indicator Storage](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/biological-indicators-storage-methods)

## [Reduced Incubation Time, What’s the Point?](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/reduced-incubation-time)

## [The Quest for the Perfect D-value](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/perfect-d-value)

## [The Importance of 16S rRNA Bacterial Spore Identification](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/16s-rrna-bacterial-identification)

## [What is the D-ifference in D-value?](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/difference-in-d-value)

## [How Much Variation Should You Allow When You Specify a D-value?](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/d-value-variation)

## [Calculation of the Biological Indicator D-value and Kill Time for a Temperature not Specified on the Certificate of Analysis](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/calculating-d-value-kill-time)

## [Defining Boundaries: The Beauty of a Self-Contained Biological Indicator (SCBI)](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/self-contained-bis)

## [Evaluation of Fedegari Resistometer Using Three Spore-Forming Indicator Organisms](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/fedegari-resistometer-evaluation)

## [The Problem with EP 7.0, 5.1.2](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/european-pharmacopeia-article-7-problems)

## [Steam Sterilization of Liquid Filled Containers](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/steam-sterilization-liquid-filled-containers)

## [A Review of the Newly Revised ISO 11138 Series on the Manufacture of Biological Indicators](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/iso-11138-manufacturing-bis)

## [Read Out Times of Smart-Read EZTest® Exposed at Elevated Temperatures](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/eztest-elevated-temperatures)

## [How Long Should BIs be Incubated?](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/bi-incubation-timeframe)

## [The Biological Indicator Spore Population has Minimal Impact on Resistance Performance](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/bi-spore-population-resistance-performance)

## [This is a test for things](http://lynton-sb3-mesalabs-20969579.hs-sites.com/spore-news/spore-news-white-papers/this-is-a-test-for-things)