Ensure Your Blood Glucose Monitoring System Meets Health Canada Licensing Requirements

CPSA's Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) program discovered older models of blood glucose monitoring devices for sale that do not meet Health Canada requirements. If you use a blood glucose monitoring system for multiple patients in your clinic, it must: 

  • Be made for multi-patient use. (See the "intended use" statement in the user's manual)
  • Use single-use disposable lancets (needles).
  • Use lancing devices (which holds the needle) that are either auto-disabling (single-use, disposable) or dedicated to a single patient only.
  • Have a valid cleaning and disinfection protocol for the meter effective against Hepatitis B. (See procedure for cleaning and disinfection in the user's manual)
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