ISO PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released two standards helping nonwoven manufacturers check the effectiveness of protective clothing and the materials used to make them. They lay down laboratory tests measuring the penetration resistance of clothing materials to blood, body fluids and other potentially infectious materials. Said ISO: "They will enable manufacturers to develop protective clothing that will reduce the potential of direct skin contact to a variety of blood-borne viruses by medical personnel." One test ...
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