{"id":423,"date":"2021-06-15T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interamericancoalition-medtech.org\/regulatory-convergence\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2022-04-22T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:45:14","slug":"national-standards-bodies-from-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interamericancoalition-medtech.org\/regulatory-convergence\/policy\/international-standardization\/standards-development-organizations-committees-and-standards-for-medical-technology\/national-standards-bodies-from-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"National Standards Bodies from the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here<\/a> for an overview of the National Standards Bodies of the Americas and their relationship with international Standards Developing Organizations and their medical device technical committees and subcommittees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links to National Standards Body Technical Committees for Medical Device Standardization:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentina<\/span>

IRAM – Instituto Argentino de Normalizaci\u00f3n y Certificaci\u00f3n<\/a><\/h3><\/div>

Comit\u00e9 – Productos y Tecnologia para el Cuidado de la Salud<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Brazil<\/span>

ABNT CB-26<\/a>
ABNT CB-36<\/a> <\/h3><\/div>
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Colombia<\/span>

ICONTEC – Instituto Colombiano de Normas T\u00e9cnicas y Certificaci\u00f3n<\/a><\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Costa Rica<\/span>

INTECO – Instituto de Normas T\u00e9cnicas de Costa Rica<\/a><\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Mexico<\/span>

DGN – Direcci\u00f3n General de Normas<\/a><\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Peru<\/span>

INACAL – Instituto Nacional de Calidad<\/a><\/h3><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
United States<\/span><\/div>

The U.S. uses international standards directly from ISO\/IEC<\/a>, ASTM International<\/a>, and from ANSI<\/a> accredited Standards Developing Organizations such as AAMI<\/a>, CLSI<\/a>, and MITA<\/a> which either generally base their standards on those of ISO\/IEC or that submit their standards to become ISO\/IEC standards \u2013 working through and supporting the U.S. mirror committees to ISO and IEC and administering the ISO\/IEC committees.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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REGULATORY COALITION PRINCIPAL MEMBERS<\/h3>\n\n\n