<p> Appendix A</p><p>Methods for Sterilizing and Disinfecting Patient-Care Items and Environmental Surfaces</p><p>References</p><p>C-1. Food and Drug Administration. Guidance for industry and FDA reviewers: content and format of premarket notification [510(k)] submissions for liquid chemical sterilants/high level </p><p>App. A- Page 1 © 2010 Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC disinfectants. Rockville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug </p><p>Administration, 2000. Available at http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ode/397.pdf. </p><p>C-2. US Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 29 CFR Part </p><p>1910.1030. Occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens; needlesticks and other sharps injuries; final rule. Federal Register 2001;66:5317--25. As amended from and includes 29 CFR </p><p>Part 1910.1030. Occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens; final rule. Federal Register </p><p>1991;56:64174--82. Available at http://www. osha.gov/SLTC/dentistry/index.html. </p><p>C-3. CDC. Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities: recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee </p><p>(HICPAC). MMWR 2003;52(No. RR-10). </p><p>Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p><p>References to non-CDC sites on the Internet are provided as a service to MMWR readers and do not constitute or imply endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the U.S.</p><p>Department of Health and Human Services. CDC is not responsible for the content of pages found at these sites. URL addresses listed in MMWR were current as of the date of publication.</p><p>Disclaimer All MMWR HTML versions of articles are electronic conversions from ASCII text into HTML. This conversion may have resulted in character translation or format errors in the </p><p>HTML version. Users should not rely on this HTML document, but are referred to the electronic </p><p>PDF version and/or the original MMWR paper copy for the official text, figures, and tables. An original paper copy of this issue can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. </p><p>App. A- Page 2 © 2010 Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, DC 20402-9371; telephone: (202) 512-1800. </p><p>Contact GPO for current prices.</p><p>**Questions or messages regarding errors in formatting should be addressed to [email protected]. </p><p>Page converted: 12/9/2003</p><p>Source: Reprinted from Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings, 2003. </p><p>MMWR, December 19, 2003:52(RR-17). Appendix C, Methods for Sterilizing and Disinfecting </p><p>Patient-Care Items and Environmental Surfaces. </p><p>Guidelines: http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/infectioncontrol/guidelines/. Accessed May 5, 2008.</p><p>Appendix C: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5217a4.htm. Accessed May 5, </p><p>2008. </p><p>App. A- Page 3 © 2010 Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC</p>