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Packaging & Sterilization

Clean Conditions: A Roundtable on Medical Device Packaging & Sterilization

Medtech customers increasingly are demanding more sustainable, recyclable options for sterilizing and packaging their products.

Michael Barbella, Managing Editor 06.04.24

Packaging & Sterilization | Testing

Ensuring Safety with ASTM F1980-21’s Accelerated Aging Protocols and Performance Testing Using ASTM

Exploring how accelerated and real-time aging studies under ASTM F1980-21 complement the physical stress tests of ASTM D4169-23.

Britt Jones, Senior Manager, Chemistry and Package Testing Services, WuXi AppTec 06.04.24

Packaging & Sterilization

What Happened to the Reprocessing of Single-Use Devices?—ThrowbackThursday

Reprocessing of single-use devices was all the rage in 2000 and causing quite the stir with patient safety at the forefront of the debate.

Online Exclusives Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 05.09.24

Packaging & Sterilization

Deciding the Fate of Ethylene Oxide in the Medtech Industry

Is the EPA misguided in its decision to make commercial sterilizers cut their EtO emissions by over 90%?

Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 04.04.24

Packaging & Sterilization

EPA’s Final EtO Rule: Cut Emissions by 90%

Rule allows for a two-year compliance exemption to be issued to prevent shortages in the medical device supply chain.

Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.14.24

Packaging & Sterilization

Janco Releases Janco Medical Division

The division will specialize in Medical Packaging and Cleanroom Manufacturing.

Rachel Klemovitch, Assistant Editor 02.16.24

Packaging & Sterilization | Tubing & Extrusion

Spectrum Plastics to Expand Costa Rica Facility

The expansion will add sterile DuPont Tyvek medical packaging capabilities and expand the company's medical tubing operation in Costa Rica.

Sam Brusco, Associate Editor 02.15.24

Packaging & Sterilization | Testing

Charter Signing Aligns Packaging, Sterilization, Laboratory Capabilities

The West Coast Device Alliance aims to unite independent companies that provide capabilities to medical device manufactures for more efficient service.

Videos Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 02.08.24

Packaging & Sterilization

Medical Device Sterilization’s Next Generation

The FDA has become quite active in motivating the medtech industry to explore alternatives to EtO sterilization.

Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 01.31.24

Packaging & Sterilization

Why Suppliers Shouldn’t Wait to Embrace New UDI Requirements

With more than 2,600 recall events and hundreds of millions of units recalled in 2023 alone, there is a critical need for more efficient recall management.

Online Exclusives Ashlea Souffrou, Founder and President of SxanPro 01.26.24

Packaging & Sterilization

TekniPlex Expands Cleanroom Film and Bag Production

New multilayer blown film line joins existing lines at Belgium facility.

Rachel Klemovitch, Assistant Editor 01.24.24

Packaging & Sterilization

FDA Encourages Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide as Possible EtO Alternative

The agency revised final guidance to list VHP as an example of an Established Category A method of sterilization.

Sam Brusco, Associate Editor 01.08.24

Packaging & Sterilization

SteriTek Explains Sterilization Concerns and Options—Voices of MPO Summit

With the spotlight on terminal sterilization, Jeff Sauter of SteriTek offers insights on what’s driving the interest in alternative techniques and technologies.

Videos Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 01.03.24

Packaging & Sterilization