(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has joined forces with three of the biggest names in standards 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 ANSI, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), ASTM International, and the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).

The new Medical Device Standards Portal provides 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), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), as well as applicable European regulations.

All documents are available fully indexed and in a PDF format that is easily downloaded. By 2010, it is anticipated that documents will also be available in an HTML format, providing subscribers with more robust functionality.

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