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Environmental Project no. 744, 2003
Evaluation of Plasticisers for PVC for Medical Devices
Abstract
On the basis of a feasibility study of the plasticiser substances and
groups of substances that are commercially available on the market
today, nine substances were selected for further investigations. PVC compounds plasticised
with these selected substances were prepared and tested for a number of properties that
were considered as primary selection criteria for medical applications. Compounding was
easy with all the investigated plasticising substances and it was easy to prepare
specimens and test samples by injection moulding with all the prepared compounds. An
attempt was made to rank the selected and investigated substances in comparison with a
reference DEHP plasticised PVC compound. Some have a slightly lower strength value, some
have a slightly lower strain at break value, and some have a higher cold flexibility
temperature. None of the substances was rejected as potential alternatives to DEHP.
However, much more data are needed before DEHP can be seriously substituted in medical
devices.
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