The Effect of Sterilization Methods on Plastics and Elastomers, 2nd Edition: The Definitive User’s Guide and Databook

The Effect of Sterilization Methods on Plastics and Elastomers (Plastics Design Library)
Author: by Liesl K. Massey (Author)
Publisher: William Andrew
Edition: 2nd
Publication Date: 2006-01-14
Language: English
Print Length: 413 pages
ISBN-10: 0815515057
ISBN-13: 9780815515050

Book Description
This extensively updated second edition was created for medical device, medical packaging, and food packaging design engineers, material product technical support, and research/development personnel. This comprehensive databook contains important characteristics and properties data on the effects of sterilization methods on plastics and elastomers. It provides a ready reference for comparing materials in the same family as well as materials in different families.

Data is presented on 43 major plastic and elastomer packaging materials, including biodegradable or organic polymers. New to this edition are resin chapters containing textual summary information including: category; general description; applications; resistances to particular sterilization methods; and regulatory status considerations for use in medical devices and medical/food packaging. The resin chapter material supplier trade name product data is presented in graphical and tabular format, with results normalized to SI units, retaining the familiar format of the best selling first edition and allowing easy comparison between materials and test conditions.

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