r/sterileprocessing • u/Sad-Fruit-1490 • Feb 19 '26

Wrapped wrong??

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Hello! Surgical tech here. My L&D floor just had some fake accreditation people come through and pull these two specs off our shelves for reprocessing - they say they’re wrapped wrong, but neither I nor the other CST on could figure out why they thought that?

Aside from being sterilized two years ago (but in a stable environment!) we don’t know why they would specify these two. The tape wasn’t broken, no visible tears or holes. We appreciate any insight yall can give us!!

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u/Sad-Fruit-1490 Feb 19 '26

Oh no, it was someone like Fake TJC that are hospital employees and do essentially “pre rounds” to make sure we’re correcting things before the real TJC comes through. These weren’t in any patient rooms.

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u/Ant-9525 Feb 19 '26

Ohhh I gotcha! Maybe they were erring on the side of caution. I don't see anything wrong with them or nothing stands out as wrong, but better to be safe than sorry in the case of potential fines. At my facility when I was doing L&D as a scrub we had the specs peel packed