Supercritical CO2 sterilization: An effective treatment to reprocess FFP3 face masks and to reduce waste during COVID-19 pandemic

Víctor Santos-Rosales; Clara López-Iglesias; Ana Sampedro-Viana; Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo; Samaneh Ghazanfari; Beatriz Magariños; Carlos A García-González

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154089

Supercritical CO2 sterilization: An effective treatment to reprocess FFP3 face masks and to reduce waste during COVID-19 pandemic

Víctor Santos-Rosales, Clara López-Iglesias, Ana Sampedro-Viana, Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo, Samaneh Ghazanfari, Beatriz Magariños, Carlos A García-González^*

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Abstract

Original language	English
Article number	154089
Pages (from-to)	154089
Number of pages	9
Journal	Science of the Total Environment
Volume	826
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154089
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Feb 2022

Keywords

BACTERIA
Bacillus pumilus
CARBON-DIOXIDE
DISINFECTION PROCESS
FILTRATION EFFICIENCY
Face mask
INACTIVATION
LIVE/DEAD BACLIGHT KIT
MICROBIAL-CELLS
MICROORGANISMS
PPE reprocessing
SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE
Sterilization
Supercritical carbon dioxide
VIABILITY

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Santos-Rosales, V., López-Iglesias, C., Sampedro-Viana, A., Alvarez-Lorenzo, C., Ghazanfari, S., Magariños, B., & García-González, C. A. (2022). Supercritical CO2 sterilization: An effective treatment to reprocess FFP3 face masks and to reduce waste during COVID-19 pandemic. Science of the Total Environment, 826, 154089. [154089]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154089

Santos-Rosales, Víctor ; López-Iglesias, Clara ; Sampedro-Viana, Ana ; Alvarez-Lorenzo, Carmen ; Ghazanfari, Samaneh ; Magariños, Beatriz ; García-González, Carlos A. / Supercritical CO2 sterilization: An effective treatment to reprocess FFP3 face masks and to reduce waste during COVID-19 pandemic. In: Science of the Total Environment. 2022 ; Vol. 826. pp. 154089.

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Supercritical CO2 sterilization: An effective treatment to reprocess FFP3 face masks and to reduce waste during COVID-19 pandemic. / Santos-Rosales, Víctor; López-Iglesias, Clara; Sampedro-Viana, Ana; Alvarez-Lorenzo, Carmen; Ghazanfari, Samaneh; Magariños, Beatriz; García-González, Carlos A.

In: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 826, 154089, 23.02.2022, p. 154089.

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