Considering Sterility Across the Packaging Value Chain

July 28, 2025

A properly designed and validated sterilization packaging system ensures the effectiveness of the sterilization process and maintains sterile barrier integrity until it’s opened. This includes the full lifecycle of the packaging system—from raw material selection and material qualification, through forming, sealing, and sterilization, right through to distribution, warehousing, and final use.

When it comes to the storage and handling of both rollstock packaging materials and preformed sterile barrier systems (pSBSs), packaging suppliers typically provide recommendations on temperature and relative humidity ranges, environmental conditions, protective wrapping, and a conditioning period prior to their use by a medical device manufacturer (MDM) or contract packaging facility. Following these recommendations helps optimize the quality of material being introduced into the production environment. Read full article in Healthcare Packaging magazine.