We thank you for your interest in SPS Sterilization, Inc. The sterilization validations are a very crucial aspect of any re-sterilization or re-processing business. We along with the FDA take this aspect of the business to heart as patient safety is and should be the first and foremost concern of all hospitals and facilities. The development, validation, and routine control of a sterilization process is composed of a number of discrete but interrelated activities.
During the American Civil War, there were 20 states in the Union, including Illinois, California, Indiana, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Oregon, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Rhode Island.
The Union was opposed by 11 Southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the Confederate States of America. When the Civil War began in April 1861, there were only 16,000 men in the U.S. Army, and many of these were Southern officers who resigned to join the Confederate States Army. Though Lincoln thought the war would be brief, he was wrong, and on July 22, 1861, Congress authorized a volunteer army of 500,000 men.