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Medical devices; monitoring of operators
The trade supervisory authorities inspect the operation of medical-technical devices.
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It is the task of the trade supervisory offices of the governments to ensure that neither users nor patients are endangered by the use of medical devices.
The trade supervisory authorities
- monitors the proper cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of used instruments and devices before they are used again.
- monitors the performance of technical inspections (safety inspections) of certain "active" (energy-operated) medical devices (e.g. mechanical ventilators, magnetic resonance devices).
- monitors the performance of metrological checks on certain medical devices with a measurement function (e.g. blood pressure monitors) to ensure that the measurement accuracy is within specified error limits.
- monitors the documentation obligations of operators, such as keeping an inventory or medical device books.
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Technical consumer protection; registration of economic operators
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Status: 09.12.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz
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