A device meant to be supplied sterile must be designed, produced and packed so that it is sterile when supplied and stays so, if stored and transported as directed, until its protective packaging is opened or damaged; it must be made and sterilised by an appropriate validated method and in suitably controlled conditions. A device supplied non-sterile must be packed to keep the cleanliness level the manufacturer specifies; if it is to be sterilised before use, the packaging must keep microbial contamination low and suit the sterilisation method the manufacturer names, and it too must be made in controlled conditions. Where a device is supplied both ways, the information must make the state plain.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.