ASTM F17-06
(Terminology)Standard Terminology Relating to Flexible Barrier Materials
Standard Terminology Relating to Flexible Barrier Materials
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Designation:F17–06
Standard Terminology Relating to
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Flexible Barrier Packaging
ThisstandardisissuedunderthefixeddesignationF 17;thenumberimmediatelyfollowingthedesignationindicatestheyearoforiginal
adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.Anumber in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript
epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Referenced Documents aseptic presentation—introduction and transfer of a sterile
2 product using conditions and procedures that exclude micro-
1.1 ASTM Standards:
bial contamination.
D 883 Terminology Relating to Plastics
barrier—anymateriallimitingpassagethroughitselfofsolids,
D 1129 Terminology Relating to Water
liquids,semisolids,gases,vapors,orformsofenergysuchas
F 1349 Test Method for Nonvolatile Ultraviolet (UV) Ab-
ultraviolet light.
sorbing Extractables from Microwave Susceptors
barrier materials—specialized porous or nonporous packag-
F 1980 Guide for Accelerated Aging of Sterile Medical
ing materials that provide environmental protection to the
Device Packages
package contents as well as protection to the environment
2. Terminology from the package contents: (1) gas, vapor, humidity, liquid,
microbial, or light resistant materials that control or elimi-
accelerated aging—a technique to simulate the effects of time
nate the amount of those environmental constituents that
on a package by subjecting the product/package system to
pass into or out of a package; (2) a porous material
elevated temperatures in a controlled environment represen-
preventing the passage of microorganisms that might con-
tative of controlled environment storage conditions. The
taminate the contents of the package.
equivalent time is generally estimated by assuming the
biological evaluation test (biotest)—a test which involves
degradation of packaging materials follows the kinetics
exposure of sealed packages to biological indicators and is
described by the Arrhenius reaction rate function, more
designed to determine the microbiological integrity of a
discussion of which is available in Guide F 1980.
package under the specific conditions of the test.
acid foods—foods that have a natural pH of 4.6 or below.
burst strength—a measure of the internal pressure necessary
adhesive transfer—a condition occurring when an adhesive-
to rupture a package or seal.
coated material is peeled away from an opposing material to
channel—any unimpaired pathway across the entire width of
which it has been sealed and shows visible evidence of the
the intended seal.
adhesive being left on the opposing material. This evidence
coextrusion—in flexible barrier materials,(1) a process
is in the form of an adhesive layer that remains with the
whereby two or more plastic streams are forced simulta-
opposing material, the adhesive having separated either
neously through one or more shaping orifices to become one
adhesively from the coated web or cohesively within the
continuously-formed multilayered structure. (2) Also, the
adhesive itself.
product resulting from such a process.
aseptic—as applied to aseptic packaging, synonymous with
commercial sterility— of thermally processed food, the con-
commercially sterile.
dition achieved by application of heat, alone or in combina-
aseptic packaging—filling of a commercially sterilized prod-
tion with other appropriate treatments, to render the food
uct into presterilized containers, followed by hermetic seal-
free of microorganisms capable of growing in the food at
ing in a commercially sterile atmosphere.
normal nonrefrigerated conditions at which the food is likely
to be held during distribution and storage.
delamination—the separation of layers in a multilayered
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ThisterminologyisunderthejurisdictionofASTMCommitteeF02onFlexible
structure.
Barrier Packaging and is the direct responsibility of F02.50 on Package Design and
dispersion coating—in flexible barrier materials,(1) a pro-
Development.
cess of applying a material, suspended or dispersed in a
Current edition approved Dec. 1, 2006. Published December 2006. Originally
approved in 1961. Last previous edition approved in 2002 as F 17 – 02.
vehicle, to a surface in such a way that a continuous,
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coalesced, adherent layer results when the vehicle liquid
contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM
(usually water) is evaporated. (2)Also, the product resulting
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
the ASTM website. from such a process.
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