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North Spore Shop: Bulk Substrate, Cultivation Supplies, Injection Grain Bag, North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies

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Mycology uses for gamma radiation sterilization
    #14527096 - 05/28/11 05:04 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

A foaf (seriously for once..) works at a medical supplies factory that uses gamma radiaton to sterlize packaged medical equipment. They use the same technology to sterilize plastic petri dishes.

I enquired how much it cost as i'd imagined it would cost £1000+ per pallet. Turns out I was wrong, its only £7.50 for a 'tote' approx 60x60x40 box. Cheap as chips!

Does this have any uses in mycology? I doubt they'll do substrates, no liquids as it heats them up apparently, so doubt they'd accept rye jars.

I plan to get lengths of layflat poly tubing sterilized so I can pour dishes and reseal in. A sterile environment.

Any other ideas or request for experimentation?


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Re: Mycology uses for gamma radiation sterilization [Re: ozzysmygod]
    #14527616 - 05/28/11 06:39 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

gamma radiation is highly ionizing, will penetrate just about everything except lead plate.
good for most sterilization purposes


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Re: Mycology uses for gamma radiation sterilization [Re: piracetam] * 1
    #14529102 - 05/29/11 01:27 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

My neighbor was working at a gamma sterilization plant before he moved.
It was great, he would do poured plates, jars of grain, unicorn bags full of media, scalpels. Everything i could think of.
The only catch was that plastics that went through the process more than a couple of times started to get brittle & the glass of the jars turned a smokey grey.


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Re: Mycology uses for gamma radiation sterilization [Re: Shortly]
    #14530041 - 05/29/11 10:21 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Interesting, thanks for the input


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Re: Mycology uses for gamma radiation sterilization [Re: ozzysmygod]
    #14535563 - 05/30/11 12:06 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Please can a mod move this to cultivation?

Thanks


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