Zimmer Biomet is committed to compliance with a variety of industry codes designed to ensure that relationships with healthcare professionals and other customers are conducted in accordance with the highest ethical standards and transparency. These codes each recognise that adherence to ethical standards and compliance with applicable laws is critical to the industry’s ability to preserve and promote its collaboration with healthcare professionals, and serve to clarify and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate activity between healthcare professionals and companies. Without reservation, Zimmer Biomet strongly endorses both the letter and spirit of relevant industry codes for associations of which Zimmer Biomet is a member, including the following:
- ABHI Code of Ethical Business Practice (UK)
- ABIMED Code of Conduct (Brazil)
- ABIMO (Brazil)
- ABRAIDI (Brazil)
- AdvaMed China (China)
- AdvaMed Code of Ethics (United States)
- American Medical Devices and Diagnostics Manufacturers’ Association (Japan)
- AMID (Mexico)
- APOMED (Portugal)
- ARTED (Turkey)
- Austromed: Verhaltenskodex (Austria)
- beMedTech (Belgium)
- BVMed: Kodex Medizinprodukte (Germany)
- CANIFARMA (Mexico)
- Confindustria dispositivi medici (Italy)
- CZECHMED (Czech Republic)
- Fenin Code of Ethics (Spain)
- IMEDA (CIS)
- Instituto Ética Saúde (Brazil)
- Korea Medical Devices Industry Association (Korea)
- Mecomed Code of Ethical Business Practice (Middle East)
- Medical Technology Association of India (India)
- Medical Technology Industry Group (Singapore)
- Medicoindustrien (Denmark)
- MedTech Europe: Code of Ethical Business Practice
- MedTech Sweden (Sweden)
- MTAA Code of Practice (Australia)
- MTANZ Code of Practice (New Zealand)
- Nefemed (Netherlands)
- Salib-MedTech (Finland)
- SAMED: Medical Device Code of Ethical Marketing and Business Practice (South Africa)
- SNITEM (France)
- Swiss Medtech (Switzerland)