Packaging & Sterilization
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Packaging & Sterilization
Coming Clean: What's Next for Packaging and Sterilization?
The still-smoldering ethylene oxide controversy is inspiring more sustainable, cost-effective, and biologically safe solutions from packaging and sterilizationMichael Barbella, Managing Editor 06.04.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
Six Key Design Features to Ensure Medical Device Packaging Meets ASTM D4169
Well-thought-out packaging is an oft-delayed but essential part of ensuring a medical device operates safely and effectively in the field.Nigel Syrotuck, Mechanical Engineering Team Lead, StarFish Medical 06.04.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
Can the Sector Rise to the Personalized Packaging Logistical Challenge?
How the life sciences market’s growing appetite for increased personalization will test the healthcare sector’s capabilities.Online Exclusives Gurdip Singh, CEO of Kallik 05.28.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
'Bug Zapper' UV-C Light Enables N95 Mask Sterilization, Reuse
Can decontaminate 200 N95 masks every eight minutes.Lehigh University 05.11.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
7 Crucial Sterilization Concerns During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has made it apparent just how quickly bacteria and viruses can spread, and also how silently.Online Exclusives Megan Ray Nichols, Science Writer; Editor, Schooled By Science 04.30.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
FDA OKs ASP's STERRAD Cycles to Sterilize N95 Respirators
Has potential to decontaminate four million N95 or N95-equivalent respirators per day in the U.S.U.S. Food and Drug Administration 04.13.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
FDA OKs STERIS Systems to Decontaminate N95 Respirators
Will support decontamination of approximately 750,000 N95 respirators per day in the U.S.U.S. Food and Drug Administration 04.13.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
Mike on Medtech: EtO Sterilization Concerns
Mike Drues and Sean Fenske discuss the controversy surrounding the most commonly used sterilization method for medical devices—EtO.Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.30.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
FDA Clears 15-Minute Hydrogen Peroxide Sterilization System
Advanced Sterilization Products claims process is 38 percent faster than competitors.Business Wire 03.09.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
Seeking Sterilization Solutions: A Look at Ethylene Oxide
An examination of the recent controversy surrounding ethylene oxide and its impact on supply risk as well as the search for alternatives.Paul Boentges and Sam Ramnarine, Jabil Healthcare 03.04.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
EPA Ethylene Oxide Value at Odds with Public Health
AdvaMed calls for revision to EtO risk assessment standard.AdvaMed 02.19.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
QTS Receives MedAccred Accreditation
Receives Global First in Sterile Device Packaging accreditation.Quality Tech Services 01.29.20
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Packaging & Sterilization
Viant to Halt EtO Sterilization at Michigan Plant by End of Year
EGLE had been investigating over the past year and issued Viant several violations for inadequate capture and control of ethylene oxide emissions.Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) 12.04.19
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Materials | Molding | Packaging & Sterilization
5 Questions for Colorite at Medica/CompaMed 2019
Thermoplastic elastomer compound line for a wide variety of uses in medical devices and packaging.Online Exclusives Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 11.15.19
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Packaging & Sterilization
5 Questions for Nelipak Healthcare Packaging at Medica/CompaMed 2019
Medtech packaging solutions including rigid trays, coated lid stock, pouches, and roll stock.Online Exclusives Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 11.15.19
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Packaging & Sterilization
Anxious Undertones: The 2019 Year in Review
Despite a healthy U.S. economy and solid corporate growth, the medtech industry was wracked with worries in 2019.Michael Barbella, Managing Editor 11.04.19
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Packaging & Sterilization | Surgical
Devices Modified with Nanoscale Beam Thwart Dangerous Bacteria
Practical use of the technology is believed to be close at hand.AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing 10.28.19
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Packaging & Sterilization
Georgia Bio Responds to Potential BD EtO Sterilization Plant Shutdown
The association is concerned the closure may lead to a medical device shortage and impact patients.Business Wire 10.28.19
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Packaging & Sterilization | Surgical
FDA OKs GI Scientific's Single-Use Duodenoscope Protective Device
Provides a sterile disposable barrier to protect from patient-to-patient cross-contamination.Business Wire 10.25.19
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Packaging & Sterilization
FDA Responds to EtO Sterilization Facility Closures
Manufacturers using EtO for sterilization should assess their inventory for any potential downstream impacts on their product distribution.U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10.25.19
