The director, the administrator of the health cooperation group or the legal representative of the establishment defines, on a proposal from the chairman of the establishment’s medical commission or the chairman of the establishment’s medical conference, a system to ensure the quality of sterilisation of medical devices in compliance with good hospital pharmacy practice and the technical standards laid down by the Minister for Health. This system :
1° Describes the organisation, procedures and resources used to ensure that medical devices are obtained and maintained in a sterile state until they are used;
2° Specifies the procedures ensuring that all medical devices to be sterilised are subjected to an appropriate sterilisation process and that single-use medical devices are not re-used.