ISO/TR 22442-4:2010
Medical devices utilizing animal tissues and their derivatives -- Part 4: Principles for elimination and/or inactivation of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) agents and validation assays for those processes
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The TSE-removal methods used to process animal tissues should also reduce the risk of transmitting TSE infections via non-viable tissues of human origin; this Technical Report does not address this issue. Some current information on human tissues and TSEs is presented which may be applied by analogy to other animal tissues.
ISO/TR 22442-4:2010 does not intend to imply a need for validation of methods involving specific materials identified as having a negligible risk of contamination with TSE agents as listed in Annex C of ISO 22442-1:2007.
It is intended to clarify final draft international standards included in the ISO 22442 series, as well as in ISO 14160.
ISO/TR 22442-4:2010 builds upon the specific discussion in ISO 22442-3 relative to TSE agents and attempts to summarize the current state of the art in the arena of TSE agent elimination. As the understanding of inactivation and elimination of TSE agents evolves, this document will be revised when possible.