KERN MBB 15K2DM, Operating Instructions Manual

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15.5 Verification validity period (current status in G)
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Personal scales in hospitals 4 year
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Personal scales if not used in hospitals unlimited

Baby weighing scales and mechanical birth weight
scales
4 year
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Bed scales 2 year
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Wheelchair scales 2 year
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Rehab clinics and local health authorities are treated as
hospitals (4 years verification validity).

Not treated as hospitals (verification validity not limited)
are dialysis stations, nursing homes and doctor’s
surgeries.
(Data source: ”Bureau of Standards News, Weighing
Instruments in Medicine“}