ABNT NBR 14990-7 Packaging Systems for Healthcare Products Sterilization, Part 7: Bag and Tube Testing for Ethylene Oxide Sterilization

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of ABNT NBR 14990-7 testing. Health products are the field with the highest product diversity in terms of physical, chemical and functional properties. These can be healthcare supplies, medical, therapy, diagnostic equipment, implantable articles, or even in vitro diagnostic products.

Ethylene oxide (also known as EO or EtO) is a low temperature gaseous process commonly used to sterilize a variety of healthcare products such as disposable medical devices. Using a vacuum-based process, EO sterilization can efficiently penetrate the surfaces of most medical devices, and its low temperature makes it an ideal process for a wide variety of materials.

EO is an alkylating agent that disrupts the cellular metabolism and reproduction processes of microorganisms. EO penetrates the breathable packaging by contacting all accessible surfaces of the product to provide the required sterility assurance level (SAL).

Materials sterilized with EO are not exposed to excessive heat, humidity or radiation. Therefore, a wide variety of materials, especially polymeric components commonly used in medical devices, can be sterilized with EO.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with ABNT NBR 14990-7 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.