June 7, 2022
With the update to ISO 10993-18, is an extractables study required for all medical devices regardless of contact type and duration of contact? In this article, Helin Räägel, Matthew R Jorgensen, and Thor Rollins from Nelson Labs share insights on...
See BlogNovember 18, 2021
Particulate testing is required for medical devices to ensure patient safety, but there isn’t a lot of guidance available. Here are four important things you need to know about particulate testing on medical devices. First, while there are some device-specific...
See BlogDecember 15, 2017
It was recently announced that Martell Winters, B.S., RM/SM(NRCM) was appointed and approved as convenor for a three-year term of a new ISO working group, WG16, on vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilization. The new working group is tasked with developing a new...
See BlogSeptember 6, 2017
Learn from the industry-leading experts at Nelson Laboratories in the three-day webinar series Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Testing Regulatory Updates, Trends, and Anticipated Changes including FDA, ISO, USP, and MDRs. The experts at Nelson Labs are teaming with MD+DI to...
See BlogOctober 28, 2014
If you are involved in the packaging of medical devices, your primary standards reference has probably been the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 11607 publication for packaging design and validation. However, this standard was lacking much of the detail and...
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