Hi everyone,
We are establishing our in-house microbiological lab, as per standard requirement (or good laboratory practices) we need two autoclaves, one for media sterilization and other one for the final plates (with growth) disinfection, in order to minimize the chances of cross contamination.
my question is that if the purpose of autoclave is to sterilize, then we should not worry about the cross contamination and we can work with single autoclave, and if our autoclave is cause of cross contamination its means it is not working well. please advice