Wrapper wrote:Items of laboratory equipment are not, in any sense of the phrase, considered medical devices. Just because they are used in a medical testing laboratory instead of a pharmaceutical production laboratory, or a food testing laboratory, does not mean they must meet a higher standard than exists for other laboratory equipment.
Those technical instruments which come in contact with or act physically upon the human body, e.g. scopes, dialysis machines, hearing aids, Goa'uld healing devices -- er, never mind that last bit -- are medical devices.
"I believe I understand your point now. Perhaps the quality and standards for laboratory equipment should be handled outside of this proposal, if they need to be handled by the WA at all. May harmony find you."