Surgical Sutures and Absorption - Break strength retention (BSR) properties

[raghuramas]

Dear Forum friends,

I am working in a medical device factory and need forum members response for this matter.

I am in need of expert ideas on what are all the root causes which affect the Break strength retention properties of absorbable, synthetic surgical sutures. The main root causes from my knowledge are as follows,

1. The product undergoes sterilization.

2. The exposure limits - .

3. Received incoming material with issues.

If all the above said are in control what are the other factors affect the BSR pattern?

I request the forum members ( especially suture experts ) to give some idea to me on this topic.


Regards,
Raghu

[Marc]

Any Medical Device / FDA people here who can halp with this question?