PROCEDURES
As required by Oregon State Law, every practicing artist at Atomic Tattoo is fully licensed and our studio has been inspected and approved by the Oregon Health Division.

Most important procedures: A.) Brand new, one-time-use, sterilized needles for each customer, B.) One-time-use, disposable ink containers discarded after each customer, C.) Nitrile or Latex medical rubber gloves for tattoo artist, and D.) Effective, medical-grade surface disinfectants.

From a public health standpoint, there are four areas of the tattoo process that have the potential to spread infectious disease. It is crucial for items that touch a customer's body -- like needles and the ink itself -- to be disposed after each customer. Small amounts of various colors of ink are poured into new plastic resevoirs which are then used to ink the tattooing needles. When a customer is done, all these small ink containers and their remaining contents are disposed -- thus, fresh, uncontaminated ink is used for each customer.

It is equally important that the surface of the tattoo artist's hands, which touch each customer, be sheathed in medical-grade Nitrile or Latex gloves that are discarded after each customer. And finally, it is important that medical-grade disinfectants be used to clean those table surfaces touched by the skin and limbs of a customer.

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