What are the differences between medical silicone products and food silicone products?

The difference between edible silica gel and medical silica gel products mainly includes different materials, different prices, different usage and different certification requirements.

1. Different materials

Edible silica gel materials, mainly silicic acid condensation and made of inorganic polymer colloidal materials, non-toxic, odorless, no yellowing, soft, elastic, not easy to kink deformation, no cracking, long service life, cold and high temperature resistance.

Medical silica gel material is mainly silicone material, medical silica gel has high strength, tear resistance, strong resilience, good physiological inertia, implanted in the human body has good biocompatibility, no irritation to human tissue, no toxicity, no allergic reaction, body rejection reaction is very little.

2. Different prices

Edible silica gel production materials are more expensive, the general price is about 200 yuan.

Medical silica gel is common liquid silica gel, the price of a single is generally about 100 yuan;

3. Different usages

Edible silica gel is mostly used in the catheter of the drinking machine, the catheter of the coffee machine, and the mouth of the baby’s milk bottle, etc., with good safety performance.

Medical silicone gel has strong performance, generally used in medical treatment or beauty industry, mainly used as medical device accessories, including human implants, oxygen ventilators, medical diversion tubes, pharmaceutical equipment, infusion catheter, etc.

4. certification requirements are different

The requirements of medical silica gel products are higher than that of food grade silica gel. Due to the higher rate of direct contact between medical grade silica gel and the human body, the production environment is stricter than that of food grade silica gel in both quality and operation process. Food grade silicone needs to pass food-related certification, but medical grade silicone is not only limited to FDA certification, but also needs medical, biocompatibility and other aspects of certification, from certification and clinical trial costs are several times higher than food grade silicone.

Although medical silica gel and food grade silica gel products are silica gel materials, the actual use is different, their production process will be different, the above is about medical and food grade silica gel products have all the different content.