ABSTRACT
Sterilization processes for pharmaceutical products,
medical devices and allied medical products are at the
end of a long process that essentially minimizes the
microbial contamination at every step of the manufac-
turing process prior to sterilization. If one looks at the
manufacturing of medical products as a continuum from
the selection of raw materials, excipients and other addi-
tives to the development of products. Then each step of
the continuum is important, microbiologically speaking.
