Legal Opinion
United States v. Caputo
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 27, 2008No. 06-3612, 06-3619PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
An autoclave sterilizes medical instruments quickly and cheaply. But some instruments can’t stand the high temperatures and pressures of an autoclave, so there is a demand for sterilizers that use lower temperatures and non-aqueous steri-lants. One system in widespread use re lies on ethylene oxide gas as the sterilant. That gas is toxic and hard to handle, however, and Ross Caputo saw a business opportunity in these drawbacks. He designed a low-temperature system using a plasma of peracetic acid as the sterilant and in 1990 asked the Food and Drug Administration to…
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