Manufacturers of Indian medical devices are warning that recently implemented mandatory quality certificates for steel products risk creating shortages of critical products, disruptions in healthcare supplies and loss of export opportunities, the Association of Indian Medical Devices reported on Thursday, August 28. Products such as syringes, surgical blades, and endoscopes.Previously, foreign suppliers needed Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certifications only for finished steel products used in the final medical device, but now upstream materials such as hot rolled coils and included to create devices also need quality certifications. Test tubes, often in small quantities, which make the protection of BIS certificates uneconomical and operationally impractical, the report says.Without the ability to import these critical stainless steel inputs in small quantities, device manufacturing and quality standards may be at risk, with the loss of global buyers added. which are necessary for manufacturers of medical devices.
. Thus, the medical equipment manufacturing industry is applicable to the Ministry of Steel, which is looking for steel used on condition that medical devices are exempt from the requirement of mandatory quality certificates from BIS.
