Washington, DC
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to have a guide in place by January 2001 for hospitals on "The Policy of the Reuse of Single Use Devices".
The strategy proposes the following:-to treat hospitals that reprocess single use devices in the same way it treats device manufactures
-to require submission of premarketing data as if reprocessors were seeking to market device for the first time
-to require reprocessors to label single use devices and provide instructions for use.
