ISO 16603:2004

ISO 16603:2004

Clothing for protection against contact with blood and body fluids

• Determination of the resistance of protective clothing materials to penetration by blood and body fluids
• ISO 16603:2004 describes a laboratory test method for measuring the penetration resistance of clothing materials to blood and body fluids. This test method uses a synthetic blood in continuous contact with the material specimen at specified set of conditions using the ISO 13994 test apparatus.
• This test method is not always effective in testing protective clothing materials having thick, inner liners which readily absorb the synthetic blood.