17.1 Verification validity period (current status in G)
Personal scales (including chair and wheelchair scales) in
hospitals
Personal scales, when not located in hospitals (for example,
doctor's offices and nursing homes)
Baby weighing scales and mechanical birth weight scales
Bed scales
Scales in dialysis stations
Rehab clinics and health authorities are treated as hospitals.
(4 years of verification validity)
Not treated as hospitals (verification validity not limited) are dialysis stations, nursing
homes and doctor's surgeries.
(Data source : "Bureau of Standards News, Weighing Instruments in Medicine"}
MTA-M-BA-e-1612
4 years
unlimited
4 years
2 years
unlimited
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