Medical Device & Diagnostics for BIOMEDevice

When you have questions about your material’s chemistry, EAG Laboratories provides comprehensive data for FDA submissions, innovation and product improvement.
From polymers to alloys to ceramics, we understand how these materials impact safety and effectiveness. EAG offers the most diverse and comprehensive suite of testing which includes:

• Polymer reverse engineering
• Polymer characterization and degradation studies
• Particulate size and characterization
• Morphological and topographical characterization to meet standards
• Cleaning validations for chemical manufacturing (not finished devices)
• Raw materials characterization
• Biocompatibility studies requiring material characterization (e.g. particulate ID, morphology, etc.)
• Chemical characterization per ISO 10993-18
• Failure analysis
• Alloy identification

• Oxide thickness determination
• Surface chemistry
• Crystallinity and phase ID

Get support for Biocompatibility and ISO 10993-18

EAG Laboratories applies vast experience with the materials that go into medical devices to assist our clients in performing the necessary chemical characterization studies per ISO 10993-18. Our scientists can provide robust data for toxicological evaluations.

• ISO 10993-18 testing details chemical characterization of medical device materials
      * Ensure product safety
      * Judging equivalence to clinically established material
• Extraction per ISO 10993-12 guidelines
• Extract analyzed by the following techniques
      * FTIR and gravimetric analysis of residue
      * Volatiles and Semi-Volatiles by GC/MS
      * Non-Volatiles by LC/MS
      * Metals by ICP/MS
      * Other methods if client specified
• Testing nickel leach and corrosion for metallic implants

Would you like to learn more about Biocompatibility testing?

Contact us today for your Biocompatibility testing needs. Please complete the form below to have an EAG expert contact you.

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