ISO-10993-18 Chemical Characterization

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ISO-10993-18

Test Description

Chemical characterization involves the identification of a material and the identification and quantification of its chemical constituents. as part of an assessment of the overall biological safety of a medical device. It involves a measurement of the level of a leachable substance in a medical device in order to allow the assessment of compliance with the allowable limit derived for that substance from health based risk assessment, to determine equivalence of a proposed material to another material or to another final device / prototype, or for screening of potential new materials for suitability in a medical device for a proposed clinical application.

Test Code
C0839-01
C0839-02