BD and Safety

In all aspects of needlestick and sharps safety, there is no company or organization that has committed more money, more people or more technological know-how to reducing needlestick injuries than BD.  Backed by more than 100 years of tradition and heritage, BD brings to safety an expertise in manufacturing high quality safety-engineered medical devices that is unrivaled.  Today, BD is proud to offer more sharps safety-engineered medical devices than any company in the world.

• BD has been committed to sharps safety longer than any other company, introducing the first sharps safety medical device, a safety syringe, more than 65 years ago…the BD Yale™ Luer Lok™ Syringe.
• In the early 1980s, BD introduced a full line of sharps disposal containers.
• The first safety syringe with a shielded needle - the BD Safety-Lok™ Syringe - was introduced by BD more than 10 years ago.
• Over the past 5 years, BD has spent more than $100 million on Research and Development and the acquisition of new patents for the development of sharps products with added safety features.
• BD has over 75 patents in the safety medical device area, more than twice the number held by any other company.
• Today BD offers the most complete line of advanced protection products in the industry. BD provides nearly 200 medical devices for use in skin injection, sample collection, infusion therapy, surgery and disposal.
  

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