ASTM F1140 standard now offered at Micom Laboratories

Micom laboratories is delighted to announce that it now offers the ASTM F1140 standard as part of its package testing and of its medical package testing services. This method details two tests procedures which rely on the use of a pressurization equipment to evaluate the ability of packages to withstand inner pressurization. However, this test protocol does not convey any correlation regarding the package seal strength. Hence, another standard must be used to characterize this property. Lastly, by associating this method with an accelerated aging test, it is possible to define the evolution of this attribute.

ASTM F1140 test

The goal of ASTM F1140 is to characterize the ability of a package to endure internal pressurization through the use of a burst test or of a creep test. More specifically, those two tests depict the response of the specimen towards a pressure differential. On the one hand, a burst test consists of steadily increasing the inner pressure of the sample until it fails. This test procedure allows to ascertain the peak pressure that the specimen can withstand before a breakdown occur