Cold sterilization is done by: September 2007: (A) Steam, (B) Inionizing radiation, (C) Infra red, (D) UV
Answer is B. Ans. B: Inionizing radiation Cold sterilization is a process in which sterilization is carry out at low temperature with the help of chemicals, radiations, membranes and all other means excluding high temperature. Ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays and cosmic rays, cause no appreciable increase in temperature in this method, it is referred as cold sterilization