Intertek Offers Global Restricted Substance Solutions for the Medical Industry
08 May 2008
Intertek (www.intertek.com/green) is a leading provider of compliance, certification, consulting, and testing services for medical electronics manufacturers and brand owners. Medical devices are already covered by a variety of global environmental regulations, but more challenging restrictions are continuously being added to which the medical device industries have to react.
Intertek offers comprehensive services and solutions to assist the medical devices industry to navigate through and comply with global environmental legislations and regulations that apply to the devices themselves, the accessories sold with the devices, the packaging of the products, and the batteries contained in the products. Intertek offers compliance and testing services related to EU RoHS, EU WEEE, California Proposition 65, REACH, China RoHS, Korea RoHS, Japan Green, EU Packaging Directive, EU Battery Directive, IEC 60601-1-9, testing for Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and Bisphenol-A (BPA), and many other emerging regulations.
Intertek has a comprehensive suite of Restricted Substances and Recycling services that include strategy definition and implementation, as well as identifying, testing and eliminating restricted materials including:
- Consulting, workshops, and strategic business alignment sessions
- Identifying and executing design for environment, EuP, end-of-life product and recycling strategies
- Compliance assurance solutions for EU, China and Korea RoHS and WEEE, US and Canadian E-waste legislation, and California Proposition 65
- Product conversion to meet global environmental requirements
- Product testing for reliability of converted products
- Preparation of and guidance on product declarations (including materials declarations and treatment instructions)
- Recycling registration and implementation of recycling systems
- Packaging and battery requirements
- Government reporting
- Product and packaging labeling obligations
- IEC 60601-1-9
- REACH and TSCA
- BPA and DEHP Testing
For more information on Intertek’s restricted substances services for the medical device industry please contact us or visit: https://www.intertek.com/green
Contacts
For further general information, please contact:
Joel Pekay
Global Marketing and Business Development Director
Telephone: 630-481-3126
Email: joel.pekay@intertek.com