Sounds like Laboratory Equipment, you have NRTL options, but certainly none better recognized than UL. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Williams <n...@conformance.co.uk> To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:26 AM Subject: NRTL recommendation required
> >I've been asked to look at a piece of equipment for shipping to the >US, and give some recommendations on what approval would be best for >the equipment. > >I'm not at liberty to give great detail but I can say that the >apparatus is for use in hospitals, but not in contact with patients - >it is medical physics engineering related, not treatment or >diagnostic equipment. Expected volumes are a few thousand units per >year. > >I'm aware of recent threads on the 'requirements' for NRTL approval >for equipment sold in the US, and I'm not looking to re-open the >discussion over whether or not this is a legal necessity. Suffice to >say that the client believes that some form of approval will be >required for marketing reasons if no other. > >I could, of course, just go to UL with this and as them to give me >price and time scale for an approval. I've dealt with several UL >approvals in the past so I'm familiar with the issues of the process, >including, of course, cost and time scale. > >What I am not familiar with, and where I would appreciate advice from >readers, is whether UL are the best people to deal with this sort of >equipment, and whether or not there are other NRTL's who are better >recognised in the medical physics marketplace. Also, if there are >potential cost and time scale advantages to be had by going to >someone else I'd like to know about them. > >All replies on this topic will be treated with confidence so if >readers want to make private comments by e-mailing me directly please >feel free to do so. This is not intended to be an exercise un >UL-bashing - I simply want some reasonably impartial advice from >people who have used NRTL approvals as to who might be the best >people to deal with. > >Replies from labs themselves would also be welcome, but might I >suggest that these come to me direct without being copied to the >mailing list lest they be misinterpreted as advertising. > >Thanks in anticipation > >Nick. > >--------- >This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. >To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org >with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the >quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, >jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or >roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
