Last fall, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) won a decisive judgement at the European Court of Justice. This judgement allows the ECHA to classify silicone oligomers, specifically D4, D5, and D6 siloxanes, as Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic substances (PBT),...
Medical device manufacturers must ensure the biosafety of their medical implant products to comply with relevant regulations. Medical implants have intimate contact with the human body for durations lasting a few hours to permanently. As such, they are subject to...
Medical device manufacturers need to screen the materials used in their products. Proper biosafety and sourcing require having full transparency about the physical and chemical information associated with the materials throughout the supply chain. Knowing what is in...
Do you manufacture in-vitro diagnostic medical devices? If so, you will need a CE Mark certificate to market them in the EU. A CE certificate verifies the biosafety of your products and that they perform as intended. Regulations such as (EU) 2017/746 (IVDR) Annex I...
Ensuring the biosafety of your medical implants is necessary for getting them in compliance with relevant regulations. Medical implants come into intimate contact with the human body for periods lasting from a few hours to permanently. As such, they are subject to...
Surfaces are everywhere, and we constantly come into contact with them. To live in this world means touching surfaces, so we rarely give it any thought. But, the things we manufacture, the things we wear on or have implanted in our bodies that we come into contact...
