Access Control
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The ASTM Committee F12 on Security Systems and Equipment task group has completed a first draft of the development of a "Standard Practice for Checkpoint Screening of Persons with Medical Devices."

Now, the task-group chair, Robert Podhrasky, is asking physicians, medical-device manufacturers and checkpoint screening specialists to join its current body of metal-detection manufacturers and U.S. Federal Drug Administration members to help address the needs of persons with implanted medical devices as well as the secure environment in checkpoint screening areas.

The current body of metal-detection manufacturers and the FDA members are contracted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate medical detectors.

"Medical devices are shipped with warnings and instructions on equipment and situation to avoid," says Podhrasky, a vice president of Garrett Metal Detectors, Garland, Texas. "A lack of standards and a lack of a means of communications among industries places all parties in the uncertain position of having to make recommendations without the full knowledge of all of the issues."

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