Medical Devices

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All listings and products must comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

Examples of Prohibited Listings

• Used medical devices
• Products that require a prescription, sale by a registered pharmacist, or a medical professional's supervision or direction for their use.
• Silicone implants
• Products intended to restrain the movement of a person with disability, dementia or other medical condition
• Contact lenses, including cosmetic lenses without prescription.
• Devices which claim to predict the gender of unborn babies
• Zappers
• Catheters
• Orthopaedic nails and plates
• Intra-aortic balloon pumps
• Electronic acupuncture
• Eye electromagnets
• Surgical equipment devices including; dental hand pieces, drills and dermatomes
• Incubators
• Blood warmers
• Surgical Lasers
• Ultrasound devices for diagnostic purposes
• X-Ray sources
• Pacemakers
• Defibrillators
• Phototherapy Devices
• Magnetic resonance equipment
• Pulp testers
• Apnea monitors
• Feeding pumps
• Jet injectors for vaccination
• Infusion pumps
• Anesthesia machines
• Dialysis equipment
• Blood pumps
• Needles
• Syringes with needles
• Contraceptive IUDs
• Clinical IVDs
• Hearing Aids
• Prescription eyewear
• Bone Saws
• Scalpels
• Tracheal tubes
• Vaginal pessaries
• Surgical retractors
• Reamers
• Drill bits
• Neuro-endoscopes
• Refractors
• Excavators
• Surgical pumps
• X-Ray film
• Dental burs
• Blood bags used for collection, storage and transfusion
• CPAP systems and masks
• Fetal dopplers
• Nebulisers
• Rife machines
• Orgone accumulators
• Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid (EPFX) or Quantum Xrroid Consciousness Interface(QXCI)

Note: Sellers who list prohibited items or content can have their selling permissions removed, either temporarily or permanently.

Related Amazon Help Pages

• Restricted Products: Drugs, Drug Paraphernalia & Dietary Supplements
• Requesting approval to sell in restricted categories
  

Additional Useful Information

• EU
• European Commission website with information on EU regulations on medical devices: http://ec.europa.eu/health/medical-devices/regulatory-framework/index_en.htm

• UK
• Website of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), http://www.mhra.gov.uk/#page=DynamicListMedicines
• UK General information: https://www.gov.uk/topic/medicines-medical-devices-blood/medical-devices-regulation-safety
• UK helpdesks: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/contact-mhra
• Brexit guidance can be found here: Regulating medical devices in GB and NI from 1 January 2021
• Business Companion website, which contains guidance on UK product compliance rules: https://www.businesscompanion.info/en/get-started