FDA Reprocessing Guidance Aims To Reduce Hospital Infections
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA is stepping up efforts to improve the cleaning and reprocessing of medical devices, with new draft guidance on device reprocessing released May 2.
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