bioburden

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ burden

Noun

bioburden (plural bioburdens)

1. A measure of an object's contamination with microorganisms.
   • 2001, Anne Booth, Sterilization Validation and Routine Operation Handbook: Radiation‎^[1], CRC Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     This is appropriate for devices containing low numbers of naturally occurring bioburden. Caution must be used because artificial inoculation may not represent the natural relationship between the normal flora and the device surfaces and […]

Further reading

• bioburden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia