Researchers Disinfect Face Masks Using Industrial Microwaves
Cardiff University researchers have been conducting tests to see whether it is feasible to sterilize personal protective equipment (PPE) used by health practitioners to combat the COVID-19 pandemic using dry heat and microwave ovens. The researchers’ findings were published in the “Journal of Hospital Infection.” The group of researchers demonstrated that some respirators could be sterilized successfully in one and a half minutes using a baby bottle sterilizer that had water and an industrial-grade microwave oven. Jean-Yves Maillard, a professor from Cardiff’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences who is also the study’s co-author, explained that the inability of frontline…