IN ACB News this week there is an article about CE-marking. This specifies
that if devices are used in-house they do not have to be CE marked. But if
they are used by anyone else they must be [so receiving tests from another
hopital means that tests must be CE marked at great expense. Does anyone
know what counts as another body?
Does receiving tests from a GP count as another body - if so then all
in-house tests must be CE-marked.
Do we need to get urine collection botles that we supply to GPs to which we
have added a preservative CE marked? - and if so can we get around it by
supplying GPs with a bottle of acid; and a collection bottle, allowing them
to make the finished product, thus meaning that it is their product and not
ours so there is no need for CE?
How far does this ludicrous legislation go - or will we all be hit by the
law of unintended consequences again.
TIM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohmed Ashmaig [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 August 2003 22:47
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: PHLEBOTOMY USING NEEDLE GUARDS
>
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> Dear Peter,
>
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> We also use Beckton Dickinson vacutainer brand
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>
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>
> --- Peter Stromberg <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote: > Our Occupational Health people say the
> needlestick
> > injury rate in this Health Authority is too high and
> > advocate that we change over to some form device
> > that incorporates a needle guard. Does anyone have
> > experience of such devices and whether they are
> > effective in reducing injury rates.
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