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Medical device reprocessing includes mechanical, chemical and/or electrical processes. [Photo courtesy of Cardinal Health Sustainable Technologies]

Medical device reprocessing is a key focus for Cardinal Health’s Sustainable Technologies business, which collects and cleans single-use devices for safe re-use under FDA standards.

Reprocessed devices keep medical waste out of landfills while offering significantly lower costs than brand-new products for hospitals and other healthcare customers, according to the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors.

Meg McClanahan, chair of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors Board and global portfolio director for Cardinal Health’s Sustainable Technologies business, offered some advice for designing medical devices for reprocessing.

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Cardinal Health’s Sustainable Technologies facility in Riverview, Florida [Photo courtesy of Cardinal Health]

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) recently opened its expanded Sustainable Technologies facility in Riverview, Florida.

The facility is now twice as large as before, at 100,000 square feet, said Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health.

The medical device manufacturer and distributor launched Sustainable Technologies in 2015 to collect, reprocess and recycle single-use devices in the U.S. Sustainable Technologies now works with more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals and ambulatory service centers, Cardinal Health said.

The FDA allows single-use devices to be used more than once if reprocessors can show the reprocessed devices are substantially equivalent to the original device. Many single-use devices can be recycled when they can not be reprocessed.

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