In her article “Six Benefits of Outsourcing Your Packaging Engineering Activities - A Case for Virtual Package Engineering for the Medical Device Industries“, Karen Greene discusses the challenges of advancing technology and life expectancy to the medical devices industry relative to the impact on the packaging professional and those responsible for the corporate package engineering function.

Read More: DDL West July 2007 Newsletter

DDL started off the year with a trip to Gulfport, Mississippi, to help with the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Even though the disaster is now out of the limelight, there is still much to be done in the Gulfport area and DDL is proud to be a part of the recovery efforts. Thank you to Corey Hensel, Ozzie Echols and Patrick Ayinde for joining Patrick Nolan on the trip to Mississippi.

View photos from the trip.

2006 has been a great year for DDL West. Thank you to all of our customers, employees and partners for contributing to our company’s success.

DDL West Welcomes Karen Greene who is a tenured packaging professional has already secured a speaking slot at next year’s HealthPack and was quoted in Medical Product Outsourcing on process validation.

This year, important revisions were made to ISO 11607, the foremost guidance document for validating packaging for terminally sterilized medical devices. More industry standard revisions lie ahead in 2007. DDL is helping industry professionals stay on-top of changes to standards with its new “Industry Standards Alert” service.

DDL West would like to welcome Karen Greene as its new Technical Director.  Karen joins DDL West from Seltzer Nutritional Technologies, where she was Director of Package Engineering.  As Technical Director, Karen will focus on increasing DDL West’s package testing business.

Patrick Nolan, COO of DDL Inc., hosted the third and final Webinar in the ISO 11607 Revisions series in August.  All three Webinars are now available on-demand on the DDL website.

Webinar #1: The Revised ISO 11607-01
Webinar #2: ISO 11607 Revisions - Understanding Clause 6
Webinar #3: ISO 11607 Revisions - Implementing Clause 6

Medical device packaging regulations have changed. The new ISO 11607-01 standard has just been published, bringing a change in compliance requirements for medical device manufacturers and packaging professionals.

DDL West understands that keeping abreadst of industry changes is difficult. This is why we are offering a series of free ISO 11607 Revisions Webinars to ensure that your medical device packaging does not fail when it enters the testing lab.

Attend Webinars 1 & 2 on-demand:
The New Revised ISO 11607-01
ISO 11607 Revisions - Understanding Clause 6

Register for the final Webinar in this series:
ISO 11607 Revisions - Implementing Clause 6

DDL West is pleased to announce the launch of its new website as an educational resource for manufacturers and packaging professionals. DDL West has added advanced features to its website to help you keep on top of the latest industry standards and compliance requirements.

New features include:
- On-demand webinars
- Industry standards search capability
- Articles download

DDL West is urging medical device manufacturers and package professionals to take note of the imminent changes to the ISO 11607 standard - “Packaging for Terminally Sterilized Medical Devices.”