Wound Care Product Analysis

Wound care products are primarily aimed at ensuring timely wound healing and effective infection control. Wound care product analysis is an area of increasing focus as the industry moves towards active wound care products and dressings with specific properties. Many products are topical and are approved as medical devices, but some drugs and biologics have been approved for the treatment of wounds as well. 

What testing is needed to support wound care product development?

Developing a wound care product requires a wide range of testing to demonstrate its safety, quality, and performance. This can include the analysis of raw materials and active ingredients, antimicrobial efficacy studies, polymer and material characterisation, and stability testing to ensure the product performs as intended throughout its shelf life. Together, these studies provide the evidence needed to support product development, regulatory requirements, and patient confidence. As wound care products demand a raft of multi-discipline testing expertise, this can pose a  significant challenge for companies involved in this field as they will require chemical analysis, microscopy, materials testing expertise and physical characterisation as well as support for clinical development necessary for marketing approval applications.

How can we help you develop safer, more effective wound care products?

Our multidisciplinary scientists support your journey from concept to commercialisation through analytical testing, materials characterisation, antimicrobial efficacy studies, GXP pharmaceutical analysis and regulatory support. By combining expertise in chemistry, microbiology, polymers, biomaterials, and pharmaceuticals, we help you create safer, more effective wound care products that meet quality, performance, and regulatory expectations. Our wound care product testing specialists use of a broad range of analytical technologies to support the critical stages of development, marketing authorisation and manufacturing. We have experience across fabric technology, films, foams, adhesives, topical ointments, novel biomaterials or active ingredients which impart a special function such as antimicrobial action (silver or broad spectrum biocides), moist products (alginates), oxygen concentration, odour control and exudate absorption. In support of preclinical and clinical studies, we perform bioanalysis conducted under Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) regulations. 

How can we support your development of antibacterial wound care products?

For wound care products that include anti-microbial agents, our teams can support your product development through quantification of the active substances such as silver content determination with ICP-MS applied to loading / dosing studies. We perform studies to measure the release of active species in simulated body/wound fluids over time so you can perfect controlled release characteristics. We also perform pharmacopeial testing for antimicrobial agents such as silver nitrate to help manufacturers ensure that their products meet mandatory global quality, safety, and purity standards

What materials testing expertise is critical to wound care product development?

We have worked with clients across a wide range of materials that are used to construct wound care products. Our expertise in characterising and testing of textiles and fibres means that we can support the development and manufacturing of woven and non-woven sheets or web structures of long fibres. We provide analysis of the distribution components (inorganic or organic) throughout and the interactions of components that manage the wound. 

Polymers and adhesives play an important role in how patient friendly and how well the wound care product performs. Our expertise in testing plastics and other synthetic polymers position us well to support your development projects; this includes profiling the migration of leachables from polymeric materials such coatings or adhesives. We have particular capabilities for biomaterials analysis including alginates, hyauronic acid, chitosan and collagen.

With a broad range of analytical technologies such as electron microscopy (SEM) and chemical analysis our scientists provide a one-source solution for complete analysis of wound care products and dressings. Intertek have the expertise and technology to assist companies operating in the wound care sector at all stages in product development, approval or manufacturing.

Why work with our wound care testing and analysis experts?

• End-to-end lifecycle scope: Support for R&D, formulation, processing, QC, Toxicological & safety assessments and Global regulatory notifications
• Trusted laboratory testing: Includes ISO 17025, GXP accreditation for reliable results delivered by expert chemists and engineers.
• Decades of expertise: Tap into global technical expertise and industry-leading capabilities
• Innovation & compliance: 40+ years of expertise supporting the chemicals, materials, medical device and pharmaceutical testing 

Advanced wound care product services

• Stability and Pharmaceutical Testing
• Troubleshooting of manufacturing issues
• Materials Characterization and Failure Analysis for Medical Devices
• Competitor product analysis