Standard name: Pen-injectors for medical use - Part 4: Requirements and test methods for electronic and electromechanical pen-injectors (ISO 11608-4:2022).
Applicable medical devices:
This standard applies to electromechanically driven injectors intended for use with needles and either replaceable or non-replaceable cartridges. The injector may be for single use or multiple-use and excludes needle-free injectors (covered in ISO 21649), infusion pumps (as covered in IEC 60601-2-24), and injectors that are operating while connected to an external power supply.Testing capabilities to ISO 11608-4 include:
- Visual and functional inspection
- Freedom from defects - after being subjected to cyclical preconditioning, to vibration, to shock, to free fall, to leakage, to dust according to IEC 60529, to damp heat according to IEC 60068-2-3
- Dose accuracy - when subjected to standard, cool and hot atmospheres
- Dose accuracy - after being subjected to dry heat storage preconditioning
- Dose accuracy - after being subjected to cold storage preconditioning
- Dose accuracy - of pen injectors with replaceable cartridges after delivery of claimed lifetime doses
- Lifetime test
- Preconditioning of pen injectors in dry heat atmosphere, cold storage atmosphere, cyclical atmosphere, by free fall, vibration, shock and for damp heat and the influence of fluid leakage.
Custom Testing
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Please note: The information outlined above is to be used as a reference. Please refer to the appropriate competent standards agency in your country for full details and implementation of EN ISO 11608-4:2022.
