Medical packaging material performance analysis

Sterile items from the end of sterilization procedures to patients to use after a period of time, during this period, medical packaging for items of aseptic condition has the vital role. No qualified packaging, no qualified sterile items. That for general medical packaging materials need to have what performance? 1. Provide microbial barrier: microorganisms barrier can guarantee can't penetrate the sterilization package and the items in the package, other microbes can be spread through the liquid such as water, so the liquid resistance of packaging materials for microbial invasion is very important. 2. Allows precipitation infiltration and sterilization factor: packaging material must be able to allow air to penetrate and sterilization medium penetration and precipitation, tight mesh or woven design may lead to precipitation infiltration or difficult, this causes potential wet package problems. 3. Tearing resistance and puncture: once the packing tear or perforation, will likely pollution sterilization package contents, potential danger to the sterile area, and torn bag or perforated bag have to deal with, such already delayed time to use sterilization products department, wasted time, manpower, material resources and financial resources. 4. Flexibility: sterilization items from the sterilizer to use should be a sterile, which requires the non-woven fabrics and other packaging materials can drape and not back, so as not to cause secondary pollution. 5. Flocculant without fall/low flocculant: cotton and other width is greater than the length of the bacteria, viruses, so cotton or fiber will become the carrier of microorganism, in addition they may absorb the detergents and disinfectants, and so on, so their presence may lead to serious complications, such as thrombosis, amplify inflammatory reaction, leads to the formation of a poor wound healing, granuloma and so on. 6. In the event of wear abrasion resistance: fabric could lead to a fall of flocculant, filtration barrier weakens, the fluid resistance is abate, wear resistance, the more the more durable and packing materials. 7. Flame retardant: in the United States each year about 100 fires surgery, normal operating room source, oxidant, so the fuel source has become an important factor of fire control, therefore use strong flame retardant materials is very important. Aseptic packaging systems not only need to have more features, but also to achieve the balance of these features, can be the perfect packaging options. Therefore, we should consider when choosing medical packaging material its various performance attributes.