why do you test for bioburden and bioburden recovery
There are three reasons to conduct a bioburden recovery test: to evaluate the test procedure in order to improve recovery, to assess antimicrobial qualities of the product against certain organisms, or merely to establish a recovery factor for adjusting future bioburden data.
It is also important for medical device producers to carry out their bioburden tests for validation of sterilisation just prior to the product being sterilised. âIf product is being left around on shelves, companies need to redo the bioburden tests, as bioburden may have changed during storage,â said Rose.