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Transport Simulation (also known as Transit Testing) is an essential process that ensures the quality and safety of products during transportation. It involves subjecting products to various tests to simulate the conditions they may encounter during transit. Transit testing is critical for companies that want to reduce the risk of damage, loss, and returns.

Environmental Conditioning simulates particular field conditions that a package will encounter as part of the supply chain. ASTM D4332 is a standard practice for conditioning containers, packages, or packaging components for testing. Specifically, ASTM D4332 is designed for the package to experience simulated environmental conditioning before it is subjected to other testing. So, for example, the ASTM D4332 would be administered as a precursor to the ASTM D4169 test.

Packaging Validation stems from the need to ensure the quality of products across the many steps in your distribution cycle: from shipping to storage. It is indeed an increasingly common requirement for many product categories, including a strong emphasis on the packaging quality requirements for medical and pharmaceutical industries.

A Sterile Barrier System (known as SBS) is often present (and mandated by regulation) in the medical packaging industry. It refers to minimum packaging that prevents contamination and helps to sterilize the finished product. The system must guarantee sterility throughout the whole supply chain from production through to the operation room. ISO 11607-1 specifies the requirements related to the compliance of the packaging for sterilised medical devices, including materials, sterile barrier systems and packaging systems.

At Medistri, you can validate your packaging according to ISTA 2A, ISTA 3A, ASTM D7386, ASTM D4169. Should you fully validate your packaging system or should you simply test one particular characteristic of your sterile barrier system, Medistri laboratory is accredited and highly experienced for the most common test method provided in ISO 11607-1.

The ISTA 2A Transport Simulation standard is designed to evaluate ready-to-ship packed items weighing up to 68kg. ISTA 2A standard tests a packaging system’s ability to withstand the physical stress of transportation throughout the product’s supply chain to the final users. The standard is issued by the International Safe Transport Association (ISTA), an organisation devoted to understanding the expectations of secure transport services.

The ASTM-D5276 standard test method for drop test of loaded containers evaluates the capability of a container to withstand the sudden shock resulting from a free fall, or the capability of a container and its inner packing to protect its contents during the sudden shock resulting from a free fall.

ISTA 2A standard tests a packaging system's ability to withstand the physical stress of transportation throughout the product’s supply chain to the final users.

The purpose is to analyse the properties of both the packaging shipping unit as well as the final product, and evaluate if the sterile barrier integrity sealing is not damaged when faced with random vibration inputs.

Compression risks are about the most frequent concerns that products and containers experience during the logistics chain.