Medical device leak testing equipment is now available for rental from MET.

This includes: pressure testing equipment, 'blue dye' testers and hydrogen trace gas testers

 

The medical device packaging machines from MET can now be seen on You Tube. The video footage shows a two lane glove packaging machine operating totally automatically at 60 cycles per minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsZverXFVjo

 

 

Medical tray sealers have been evolving at Belco. They still retain the rigid structure and precise control, now with added interfacing options and control systems. These include: 

• Wireless Bar code scanning for the input of process data
• Data Acquisition of all characteristics for every seal cycle
• Networking of multiple machines for data recording

 

 

The MET Vacuum Package Leak Test equipment is now available with extra precision. Making the leak integrity testing of tablet blisters and low viscosity fluid filled containers even more accurate.

 

 

Medical device package stability testing requires both accelerated aging and real time aging studies to validate shelf life claims. MET is now offering real time aging studies in conjunction with accelerated test programs free of charge. Test programs include aging, integrity testing and seal strength testing.

 

A new series of brochures describing medical device testing services is now available from MET. Titles include

Endovascular Device Testing

Heart Valve Testing

Stent Retention Force Testing

Stent Functional and Fatigue Testing

Contact MET for your copy.

8 June 2009

 

Stent delivery systems must deploy their cargo at the desired location. ASTM F2394 - 07 'Standard Guide for Measuring Securement of Balloon Expandable Vascular Stent Mounted on Delivery System' is a guide to measuring the security of a stent on its balloon to ensure safe delivery. MET now provides comprehensive testing to this standard.

Fatigue testing, standards compliance, flow characteristics: a complete range of tests for heart valves is now available from MET. We examine valve opening pressures, forward flow, back flow, pulsatile flow and much more.

 

"The testing for IV Bag for pressure decay last time was smooth and successful, we are satisfied by the prompt and detailed report." Honk Kong Pharmaceutical Company, QA Lab.

Shelf life claims validation forms part of a  comprehensive range of medical device and pack testing that is available from MET. A recent article in the spring edition of Med-Tech Packaging News by Mark Turner (MET) describes the application of these tests under FDA guidance.

 

MET's supplier of blister tray sealing equipment, Belco Packaging Systems Inc., is celebrating its fiftieth birthday. Belco's medical tray sealers are robustly delivering perfectly sealed blister in factories around the world, day in day out. They are used for packaging a wide range of medical devices, from arthroscopy to orthopaedics

 

MET is now able to provide the full gamut of testing required in ISO25539:2003 Cardiovascular implants. Testing covers both part 1: Endovascular Prothesis and part 2: Vascular Stents. Insertion forces can be measured as well as trackability and pushability for percutaneous devices. Radial outward force measurement and fatigue testing is carried out on the stents.