Marque It is safest to treat this as a medical device and use the EN 60601 range of standards.
Outside of medical devices the nearest standard is EN 60335-2-23 - Appliances for skin or hair care but this does not specifically deal with this type of device and so may not cover all risks associated with this device. The scope of EN 60335 includes appliances not intended for normal household use but which nevertheless may be a source of danger to the public, such as appliances intended to be used by laymen in shops, in light industry and on farms. I would say that there is definitely no argument for the use of any other standard such as EN 61010. Best regards Glenn Moffat TUV International UK TUV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg Group Ltd Tel: +44 121 634 8000 Fax: +44 121 634 8080 email: [email protected] www.uk.tuv.com Greetings, We are in the process of developing an epilation device -(unit used in beauty salons to permanently remove unwanted hair - known as "electrolysis") Does anyone have any idea what EU standard would be most suitable to apply to a device such as this. Is it medical since a needle is inserted into the dermus layer of the skin, or would it come under more of a household standard such as EN60335? Beauty salons are normally found in shopping centres so could this imply some sort of light industrial standard such as EN61010? Any help would be greatly appreciated, kindest regards, Marque Crozman Research & Development Hardware Engineer EMC Test & Complience Engineer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Innotech Pty Ltd P.O. Box 292 Sunnybank QLD 4109 Australia Phone. +61 7 3841 1388 Fax. +61 7 3841 1644 E-Mail - [email protected] Web - http://www.innotech.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
