EN 14079 Inactive Medical Devices - Performance Requirements and Test Methods for Absorbent Cotton Gauze and Absorbent Cotton and Viscose Gauze

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of EN 14079 testing. This standard describes the requirements and test methods for absorbent cotton gauze and absorbent cotton and viscose gauze. The standard does not take into account gauze impregnated with a pharmaceutical substance.

Absorbent cotton gauze, absorbent cotton striped gauze, and absorbent cotton and viscose striped gauze are described in the European Pharmacopoeia. Due to the entry into force of the Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EEC, these monographs have been removed from the European Pharmacopoeia.

Woven fabric supplied in continuous strips of various widths, of warp cotton yarns and weft viscose yarns or yarns purified, bleached and made absorbent before or after weaving, white and almost odorless, with no more than slight traces of leaves, pericarp seed coat or other impurities contains and is free from weaving defects.

All tests should be performed with material in final form, sterile or non-sterile. All reagents used must be of analytical purity.

Woven fabric supplied in continuous strips of various widths, of warp cotton yarns and weft viscose yarns or yarns purified, bleached and made absorbent before or after weaving, white and almost odorless, with no more than slight traces of leaves, pericarp seed coat or other impurities contains and is free from weaving defects.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with EN 14079 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.