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Bureau Veritas Electrical health and medical equipment

With many years of experience within the health and medical device marketplace, Bureau Veritas Electrical is your partner of choice for medical device compliance assistance.

Shorten time to market access for your products

We provide you with solutions and advices answering your specific needs all along the industrial process

Assess your product's characteristics and compliance

As an independent testing laboratory, we assess the conformity of electromedical devices to the requirements of European and international standards and regulations, as well as technical specifications

Products Covered

  • medical devices for diagnostic, treatment, therapy and supervision use

Assess the conformity of your products - Needs for testing services

We benefit from multidisciplinary skills and a wide range of testing and measuring equipment covering:

  • Electromagnetic Compatibility
  • Radio Frequency
  • Environmental Simulation
  • Electrical Safety
  • Environmental Compliance Assistance - Eco Design / RoHS / EuP

Developing first-class appliances

We analyze the market access requirements for your health and medical equipment and can prepare a complete technical file in order to verify and assess the quality and conformity of your products and the associated manufacturing controls. This can be against many legislative barriers to trade including CE marking (Safety, EMC, RF), FCC requirements for North America and Environmental legislation such as RoHS/WEEE Directives, Energy Using Products Directive, REACH regulations and much more.

Checking your product compliance to standards and regulations, in the shortest period of time

Our advice is always totally impartial and fully confidential. Our services are provided to take into account your particular time constraints.

Obtaining conformity marks for all markets

Bureau Veritas Electrical is an accredited organisation in many countries worldwide allowing us to issue certificates and marks of conformity recognised throughout the world, as proof of the reliability of your consumer electronics products.

  • CE marking
  • FCC mark
  • CB Scheme
  • NF Mark
  • GS Mark
  • And many more

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Why Bureau Veritas Electrical

  • Location Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 and has in excess of 23,000 employees located in 140 countries. We have access to 5,000 employees in 40 countries worldwide within the Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Service group with electrical focussed office and laboratory locations in USA, France, Germany, UK, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
  • Knowledge - Access to our dedicated information resource center tracking the electrical legislative developments and advising on its impact
  • Capability - Access to CB Scheme (access to 70 countries with one test) certification as well as access to our comprehensive accredited EMC, Safety and Environmental Test facilities in all three continents
  • Knowledge - Future legislation consultants who can advise on the impact of RoHS, REACH, EuP, China RoHS, etc… and other legislation as it develops
  • Price – With offices and facilities all over the world, we can offer incredibly competitive rates for our services

Bureau Veritas Electrical Services

Testing

LCIE is COFRAC Accredited (testing part) to perform testing on electromedical devices

  • Safety testing
  • Functional and performance testing
  • Assessment of the reaction in environments (temperature, mechanical, protection index,
  • Electromagnetic compatibility
  • Assessment of testing performed in the manufacturers’ laboratories

Certification

  • LCIE is Notified and Competent Body for the application of the European directives; Low Voltage, EMC, R&TTE
  • We issue certificates of compliance
  • NF Mark
  • LCIE is designated by AFNOR Certification to deliver the NF Medical Mark for lighting equipment for surgery blocks
  • CB certificates and testing reports
  • European conformity marks : CCA-EMC, simplified access to various national marks through the CCA agreement (Cenelec Certification Agreement)
  • Foreign marks: UL and  CSA-US marks for the USA,  CSA and C-UL for Canada, GOST R (NCB GOST Re) for Russia
  • In the framework of bilateral agreements, LCIE perfroms testing programs according to the requirements of applicable standards and plant inspections. LCIE also handles relationships with foreign certification bodies.

Consulting

  • Identification of applicable standards and regulations
  • Assistance in drawing up specifications
  • Assistance in building the conformance file
  • Numerical simulation
  • Dependability: securization of installations, production audits (technical, quality)
  • Production control, failure analysis
  • Functional safety, identification of default risks of equipment and softwares
  • Numerical and reliability calculation
  • Market analysis, technical comparative studies
  • Assistance for exports, identification of applicable standards and regulations, handling relationships with foreign certification bodies
  • Assistance in the settlement of quality procedures
  • Assistance for methodology
  • Prevention of hospital risks
  • Guidance in purchasing medical devices
  • Verification of dental, medical or industrial  radiology chambers
  • Assistance in the maintenance of power transformers
  • Technical controls on medical devices according to the requirements of applicable standards, and upon request of health establishments or State entities
  • Technical expertise performed upon request from industrial players
  • Assessment of the modifications performed on medical devices

Inspection, Audits and Assessments

  • Inspection services
  • HSPM
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