(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- Four of the biggest names in standards have joined forces to develop an unprecedented resource for medical device standards and related information.

Medical professionals can now access more than 1,300 medical device standards from one single database developed jointly by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ASTM International, and the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).

This new Medical Device Standards Portal is a user-friendly single source for critical documents from AAMI, ASTM, DIN, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and various European regulations.

Upon initial launch, all documents will be available fully indexed and in a PDF format that can be easily downloaded.

By year end, it is anticipated that all documents will also be available in an HTML format, providing subscribers with more robust functionality.

The Medical Device Portal will arm medical device professionals with a powerful information management system that will enable users to:

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