Medical Devices

The below is guidance only. Amazon reserves the right to remove any listing it considers to be inappropriate for sale for any reason.

Examples of Permitted Listings

Reminder: all listings and products must comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

• Certain medical devices that do not require medical prescription nor assistance by a health care provider, and provided they are manufactured in compliance with law, appropriately described and labeled and not otherwise restricted, such as
  • Contact lenses
  • Breathalyzers
  • Oxygen concentrators
  • Pulse oximeters
  • Heart rate monitors
  • Defibrillators
  • Q-ray bracelet
  • DNA tests or paternity tests
  • Pregnancy tests
  • Syringes without needles
  • Tattoo kits
  • Piercing kits
  • Tanning devices

Examples of Prohibited Listings

• Devices which claim predicting gender of unborn babies
• Zappers
• Prescription eyewear
• Hearing aids
• Used medical devices
• Implantable devices
• Products that require a prescription, or a medical professional's supervision or direction for their use
• Medical devices for professional use
• Products intended to restrain the movement of a person with disability, dementia or other medical condition
• Needles sold alone or included in other devices
• Stents and shunts
• Catheters
• Dialysis equipment
• Enema devices
• Glucose meters
• Phototherapy devices for the treatment of skin disorders
• Surgical equipment such as clamps and lasers
• Orthopaedic nails and plates
• Bone saws, blood lancets, excavators and chisels
• Reamers
• Pacemakers
• Ultrasound devices, Fetal Doppler
• X-Ray equipment
• CT scanner, MRI scanner
• Blood transfusion equipment
• Anesthesia machines
• Apnea monitors
• Resuscitators
• Tracheal tubes
• Feeding pumps, infusion pumps and intra-aortic balloon pumps
• Ophtalmoscopes, Refractors
• Neuro-endoscopes
• Incubators
• Suction equipment
• Dental bridges, crowns, ceramics and polymers, and other dental equiment
• Dental alloys, burs and filling materials
• Pulp testers

Related Amazon Help Pages

• Restricted Products: Drugs, Drug Paraphernalia and Dietary Supplements
• Categories requiring approval

Additional Useful Information

• European Commission website with information on EU regulations on medical devices http://ec.europa.eu/health/medical-devices/regulatory-framework/index_de.htm
• Medical devices act, http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/mpg/