If Not Using the Kit Exception, Does the Kit Itself Need a UDI?

The kit exception doesn't work in reverse. So what the kit exception says is that if you have a UDI on the kit (assuming that it's a kit that meets the intent of the UDI Rule and the regulatory definition that's there now) then the device components are exempt from having to have a UDI on them. And we probably should use the term "component". The devices within the kit do not need to have a UDI on them.

The collection of medical devices, or the kit, in this case, is still a medical device and subject to UDI. So even if each of the devices within the kit have their own UDI, the kit itself is still a medical device and still needs its own UDI that identifies the kit itself. So it doesn't work in reverse.

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