May 24, 2022
This eBook addresses common challenges and best practices for medical-device manufacturers with questions about testing their products. Table of Contents: EO Optimization and Potential Effects on Sterile-Barrier Packaging Patient-Specific Implants Often Require More Testing Extractable Chemical Characterization and Risk Assessment:...
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February 9, 2022
There is a critical piece of reprocessing validations that has been largely overlooked for a long time: the cleaning chemicals. The devices and instruments used for the validations tend to get most of the attention. Recently Alpa Patel, Principal Scientist...
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Understanding the sterility assurance level To understand how steam sterilization processes are validated, it is important to understand some key concepts about sterilization. The purpose of sterilization is to inactivate microbiological contaminants, thereby rendering products sterile[1]. The kinetics of inactivation...
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ISO 17664:2017[1] as well as FDA[2] state that if a medical device is intended to be sterilized, at least one validated sterilization method must be specified in the IFU. Consequently, if devices are intended to be steam sterilized, at least...
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The FDA guidance on reprocessing medical devices in health care settings: validation methods and labeling states, that when performing cleaning validations, the artificial test soil that is chosen should allow for at least two clinically relevant soil components to be...
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