SUD Regulations Mulled In Senate; Hospitals May Not Be Complying
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Senate HELP Committee Chairman Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) supports efforts to provide stronger control of reprocessed single-use medical devices (SUDs), but he has not committed to folding tighter requirements for reprocessors in the conference report on the Bioterrorism Preparedness Act of 2001 (S 1795)
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