Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News

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DDL has launched a service that e-mails alerts on standards changes. Professionals who sign up on DDL’s Web site can request updates on specific standards or from designated associations. Standards bodies covered include ASTM, ISO, AAMI, and IEC.

Medical Product Outsourcing

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As the medical device industry increasingly embraces full-service, outsourced manufacturing, one of the value-added functions OEMs have come to expect from third-party service providers is product validation. From product conception to design transfer to sterilization, just about every step along the manufacturing continuum requires design and process validation, and vendors have responded by making validation services a regular part of their offerings.

Twin Cities Business Journal

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DDL is named a Top 50 fast growing company in the Twin Cities. DDL is listed #42 in the annual Fast 50 Growth segment.

Medical Device Technology

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DDL answers frequently asked questions regarding the revisions to ISO 11607.

Guide to Medical Device Regulation

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has its international standard on Device Packaginging (ISO 11607) to incorporate provisions of the British Standard (BS) and European Norm (EN) standards BS/EN 868-1, dealing with packaging materials and systems to maintain device sterility until the point of use.

“Harmoniz[ation]…has been the goal of the ISO and European Committee for standardization ever since development of these standards was initiated,” said Patrick J. Nolan, chief operating officer of DDL, Inc., a package, product, and material testing laboratory with offices in Minnesota and California.

Newsmakers - Karen Greene

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Karen Greene joins DDL West as Technical Director.

IDS Packaging

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Medical device package, product and environmental testing laboratory, DDL Inc, responds to increased business with a new Technical Director at DDL West and a new Project Manager at its corporate headquarters.

DDL, a leading medical device package, product and environmental testing laboratory is expanding both of its facilities with two new hires, Karen Greene and Kelley Newman.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Eden Prairie-based DDL Inc., a package-testing laboratory, added Kelley Newman as a project manager/quality assurance specialist.

Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News

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The Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Minneapolis event will feature special sessions on medical device pack-aging with Douglas Stockdale of Stockdale Associates Inc. as chairperson. The first session will focus on packaging engineering and will include an overview of ISO 11607 revisions with special attention on the standard’s Clause 6.