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International Standard specifies safety requirements for electrical equipment intended for sterilization, washing, and disinfection of medical materials in the medical, veterinary, pharmaceutical and laboratory fields, when used under the environmental conditions of 1.4. Examples of such equipment are: a) STERILIZERS and disinfectors using steam; b) STERILIZERS and disinfectors using toxic gas, toxic aerosol or toxic vapour; c) STERILIZERS and disinfectors using hot air or hot inert gas, and d) washer disinfectors.This standard also does not apply to the following types of equipment: aa) equipment for use in hazardous gas atmospheres (see IEC 60079) except for an atmosphere created inside equipment by the use of a flammable sterilizing agent (see 13.0); bb) environmental cabinets (see IEC 61010-1); cc) laboratory equipment for the heating of materials for other purposes than sterilization or disinfection (see IEC 61010-2-010); dd) laundry equipment (see IEC 60335, Parts 2-4, 2-7, and 2-11, and ISO 10472), unless designed for disinfecting medical materials; ee) dishwashers (see IEC 60335, Parts 2-5 and 2-58). g) liberated gases (including the non-intentional escape of toxic gas), pathogenic substances, explosion and implosion (see Clause 13). aa) special requirements for protection against chemical and high-risk micro-biological HAZARDS associated with the LOAD; bb) general requirements for the design of calorifiers, shell boilers and PRESSURE VESSELS.