Sterilization

Products

Quality Driven

With over 40 years of experience, MDS Nordion is the undisputed leader in irradiation technologies .Our exacting standards and dedication to quality and safety ensure that your solution is both effective and efficient. Our technology is used to sterilize and treat a wide range of products.

  • Gamma technology is used to sterilize more than forty percent of all single use medical devices and supplies including an estimated 80 percent of all surgical gloves
  • MDS Nordion has designed and built 120 of the 160 full-scale commercial irradiators in operation throughout the world
  • MDS Nordion supplies 75 percent of the world’s global demand for cobalt-60
  • Consumer products such as raw materials used in cosmetics, bandages, contact lens solution and others are all sterilized using MDS Nordion technology
  • MDS Nordion championed the use of food irradiation to reduce the risk of food borne illness and as an environmentally acceptable way to eliminate pests in foods destined for export
  • Increasingly, MDS Nordion technology is being used to sterilize pharmaceuticals and combination medical devices