Health Canada, the Canadian medical device market regulator, is set to require all reprocessed single-use medical devices to Canadian Medical Device Regulations (CMDR) by September 1, 2015. According to MEDEC, the national association created for the Canadian medical technology industry, the newrequirementwill apply to all commercially reprocessed single-use devices, but Health Canada will leave in place provincial- and territorial-level oversight of device reprocessing, which is carried out at hospitals.
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