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VERDA Water Quality Systems, Saint Johnsbury, VT (2025)

07/31/2025

Teamwork truly does make the dream work when it comes to water quality! From current state surveys to daily monitoring, every detail matters for safe, effective instrument processing. The path to excellence is paved with collaboration, continuous learning, and the drive to set higher standards together.

Remember, the journey to achieving gold standard water quality is ongoing—and VERDA is here to support you every step of the way!

What’s your next step for elevating your department’s water management?

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07/23/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 8: I’ll Be Watching You(r Water): How to Monitor Your Water Quality

ANSI/AAMI ST108:2023 Tables 5 and 6 outline the testing of the quality of your Utility, Critical, and Steam (condensate) Water at the point of water generation and the endpoints-of-use. Critical Water requires monthly sampling and testing, while Utility Water and Steam condensate can be tested less frequently (i.e. quarterly) if testing indicates that less frequent sampling is adequate.

There are a total of 18 water quality parameters in ST108 that define each water type, categorized into organic contaminants, corrosive agents, scaling agents, and basic water chemistry. Routine testing is required only on a subset of these (i.e. pH, conductivity, alkalinity, hardness, bacteria, endotoxin, and turbidity) if your water quality consistently meets the standard.

However, daily monitoring of Critical Water conductivity is required. It’s common for conductivity to be monitored with in-line sensors to ensure high-quality water is constantly being produced.

ST108 also recommends daily monitoring of the performance of filters, softeners, reverse osmosis systems, deionization tanks, UV irradiation systems, and circulation pumps. This can be done via manual inspection or by an automated monitoring system with alerts and alarms when equipment performance is Out-of-Trend or Out-of-Specification.

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07/16/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 7: Water Fitness: How to Maintain Your Water Treatment System

The best-designed water treatment system won’t produce high-quality water for long if it’s not serviced. Filters need replacement, and softeners maintained. RO membrane performance in both quality and quantity of the product water slowly degrades over time, eventually needing to be replaced.

Deionization (“DI”) tanks should be exchanged frequently. Their resin capacity to extract dissolved solids from the water is eventually exhausted with use, plus they can also harbor bacterial growth, releasing these microorganisms downstream.

Because Critical Water is stripped of disinfectants, it is susceptible to bacterial growth, and regular disinfecting of your Critical Water system is highly encouraged in ANSI/AAMI ST108:2023 for preventative purposes.

Don’t wait until you test positive for high bacteria readings before disinfecting. Instead, disinfecting your Critical Water as part of your routine maintenance, with testing to validate that your proactive disinfections are helping you maintain high-quality water.

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💧Don't miss Part 8 -- coming next week!

07/11/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 6: The Waterwright: How to Create the Water Quality You Need!

The treatment steps and equipment needed to produce Utility Water is different than the equipment needed to produce Critical Water. For example, Utility Water may require sediment filtration, softening, and pH balancing of the municipal water supply to meet ST108 standards.

Critical Water, however, which has significantly higher water quality than Utility Water, can only be produced with water purification, typically using reverse osmosis, deionization, or distillation.

Steam for Sterile Processing might be able to be created from municipal water, but it’s more likely that Steam or Steam Feedwater treatments will be needed to produce the high-quality Steam necessary for Sterile Processing. In regions with water with lots of dissolved solids, purification of the Steam Feedwater may be the only reliable way to produce adequate Steam quality.

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💧Stay tuned next week for more water quality insights!

07/03/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 5: The Right Water: Selecting the Appropriate Water Quality for Each Stage of Sterile Processing

Selecting the correct water requires you to understand the different potential infection risks for each medical device. Device risk is categorized as non-critical, semi-critical, and critical, depending on the level of human body contact. For example, intravascular, intrathecal, and intraocular medical devices are classified as critical devices because endotoxin contamination on them increases the likelihood of adverse pyrogenic reactions in patients.

Each stage of processing needs to be matched with the appropriate water quality. The water used in cleaning needs to meet the requirements of the cleaning agents. For example, using detergents with higher quality water than intended may result in detergent residue left on rinsed instruments, causing staining and spotting.

OEM equipment may have its own requirements for water quality that can overlap or be more stringent than ST108. Lastly, don’t forget that water temperature is also an important water quality characteristic. Hot water supplied to washer-disinfectors may be too hot for optimal ultrasonic cleaner performance.

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06/27/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 4: Water, Water Everywhere: Categories of Water Quality & Why They are Important

ANSI/AAMI ST108:2023 defines three categories of water used in Sterile Processing: Utility Water, Critical Water, and steam (condensate).

Utility Water is mainly used for soaking, flushing, washing, and intermediate rinsing. Critical Water is used for final rinsing after high-level disinfection, final rinsing prior to sterilization, and, in some cases, steam feedwater for medical device sterilization. Steam is the third water category, and its testing for the ST108 standard is done by sampling steam condensate at each sterilizer.

There are different categories of water in Sterile Processing because the water quality needed for each stage of processing medical devices differs depending on the type of medical device (e.g., stainless steel instrument, flexible endoscope, etc.) and the disinfection and sterilization processes used.

Understanding the differences in Sterile Processing water will help you determine when to use what water type in your department and if your water meets the necessary criteria to perform its cleaning and sterilization functions effectively.

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💧Stay tuned next week for Part 5!

06/19/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 3: Risky Water Business: Conduct a Risk Analysis of Your Water

Conduct a risk analysis to mitigate the dangers of poor water quality. It’s best performed once you have a complete understanding of your water, how it is treated, and how it is distributed to your department.

A risk analysis should include risk identification, root cause analysis, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring.

Identify the harm from poor quality water, hazards in the water, and hazardous situations in the water.

For example, piping dead legs with stagnant water (hazardous situation) can lead to bacteria growth in your water (hazard), which can cause infections in patients (harm).

Assess your risk by looking at the probability of hazardous situations in your water, the severity of the harm, and the detectability of the hazards.

Once you have this information, you can develop your risk mitigation and monitoring programs.

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06/12/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 2: Know Thy Water: Conduct a Survey of Your Current Water System

Help implement ANSI/AAMI ST108:2023 by understanding your current setup. Try and answer some of these questions: What is the quality of your current water? Do you filter, soften, reverse osmosis, or de-ionize your water? How do you treat your steam? What do you use for piping? How is the water plumbed? Where are the points-of-use and water sampling locations?

Simplified and visual approaches are effective in communicating all this information. Use a Process Flow Diagram to describe the water treatment steps. For information on piping, points-of-use, valves, gauges, and sensors, create a Process and Instrumentation Diagram.

These documents can explain a lot of details concisely and clearly. An accurate survey of your system is crucial for performing a robust risk analysis of your water, which helps you identify where you may need to make changes.

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💧Join us next week for Part 3!

06/05/2025

All in for Water Quality -- Part 1: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Creating Your Water Management Team & Setting Your Goal(s)!

The ANSI/AAMI ST108:2023 water quality standard calls for a multidisciplinary team that understands the impact of water quality on medical device processing and patient care. This collaborative approach is intended to empower healthcare staff to better engage in managing their water and improve water quality compliance.

The group is responsible for monitoring the water and determining the actions to take when water quality parameters are out-of-range. This team sets the water management program goals, making sure they align with ST108.

The group should perform a current state survey, define the gap between the current and desired state, then evaluate solutions. These might be changes to the design or maintenance of the water treatment system, the frequency or locations of water testing, real-time monitoring, or system alarms, and appropriate responses.

Accelerate your team’s learning curve on implementing ST108 with CEU-accredited courses and conference lectures, as well as face-to-face and e-learning from industry experts. Work with these individuals to help develop your own Sterile Processing water quality management program.

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💧Stay tuned next week for Part 2!

05/30/2025

Ready to take your department’s water quality to the next level? 💧 The ANSI/AAMI ST108 water quality standard is all about teamwork, innovation, and understanding every step of your water management process. That’s why we’re excited to launch our special 8-part series, “All in for Water Quality,” designed to guide you through each critical stage of building and sustaining a next-level water quality program.

Throughout this series, we’ll break down how building the right multidisciplinary team, knowing your water system inside and out, and mastering risk analysis can help your team reach your water quality goals—one step at a time.

So don’t miss a beat—follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn for all the water quality insights coming your way!

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04/25/2025

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