# ISO 11138-2:2006 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO 11138-2:2006, item title is Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 2: Biological indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes; status code is 9599; successor is ISO 11138-2:2017; withdrawn / published date is 2006-06-26, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO 11138-2:2006 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 2: Biological indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO 11138-2:2017
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 2006-06-26 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 33957,IS,,ISO 11138-2:2006,Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 2: Biological indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes,Stérilisation des produits de santé — Indicateurs biologiques — Partie 2: Indicateurs biologiques pour la stérilisation à l'oxyde d'éthylène,2006-06-26,2,['11.080.01'],ISO/TC 198,9599,[20530],[66445],"['en','fr']",5,"<p>ISO 11138-2:2006 provides specific requirements for test organisms, suspensions, inoculated carriers, biological indicators and test methods intended for use in assessing the performance of sterilizers and sterilization processes employing ethylene oxide gas as the sterilizing agent, either as pure ethylene oxide g

## 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Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).