Agencies Issue Duodenoscope Guidance
The Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and American Society for Microbiology yesterday released voluntary standardized for duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing, which update a 2015 CDC interim protocol. 鈥淔or health care facilities that choose to implement duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing, these protocols can be used to help monitor the quality of a facility鈥檚 endoscope reprocessing procedures,鈥 the agency .
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