# ISO 11137-2:2012 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO 11137-2:2012, item title is Sterilization of health care products — Radiation — Part 2: Establishing the sterilization dose; status code is 9599; successor is ISO 11137-2:2013; withdrawn / published date is 2012-03-15, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO 11137-2:2012 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Sterilization of health care products — Radiation — Part 2: Establishing the sterilization dose _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO 11137-2:2013 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2012-03-15 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 51238,IS,,ISO 11137-2:2012,Sterilization of health care products — Radiation — Part 2: Establishing the sterilization dose,Stérilisation des produits de santé — Irradiation — Partie 2: Établissement de la dose stérilisante,2012-03-15,2,['11.080.01'],ISO/TC 198,9599,"[33953,53572]",[62442],"['en','fr']",70,"

ISO 11137-2:2011 specifies methods of determining the minimum dose needed to achieve a specified requirement for sterility and methods to substantiate the use of 25 kGy or 15 kGy as the sterilization dose to achieve a sterility assurance level, SAL, of 10-6. ISO 11137-2:2011 also specifies methods of sterilization dose audit used to demonstrate the continued effectiveness of ## Source - https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01. Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).