Healthcare Packaging

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Medical device manufacturers must take care up front with contractors and vendors to determine roles and responsibilities in the entire package development and validation process.

Most of the changes to the Standard will have little effect on how you design your packaging and sterile barrier systems for your devices. However, there are some nuances that will require additional testing and some subtleties for performing a final package system validation as described in Clause 6.

Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry

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A medical device’s package plays a key role in safely delivering treatment to patients. It must ensure the integrity of the device from the point of manufacture to the point of final use. In addition, packaging often has a direct function in the application of the treatment; for example, it may act as a fixture or a dispenser. Therefore, mechanical damage to a package cannot be tolerated. Device components and packaging systems must combine to create a product that performs efficiently, safely, and effectively in the hands of the user.

Twin Cities Business Journal

IDS Packaging Ideas Newsletter

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DDL, a leading medical device package testing laboratory, is hosting the second of three free webinars on the upcoming revisions to the ISO 11607 standard – “Packaging for Terminally Sterilized Medical Devices.”

Medical Design Technology  
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Package testing expert, Patrick Nolan, COO of DDL—a leading package, product, and material testing laboratory—has been elected chairman of the ASTM Committee D-10 on Packaging.

IDS Packaging Ideas Newsletter  

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Many packaging manufacturers struggle to understand what they need to do to test and certify their packages. Here are 10 tips to help you work efficiently and effectively with a third party package testing lab and to satisfy your package testing expectations.