Public hospitals in particular, those who are officials (those who decide which decision to choose decision makers) they would certainly prefer to choose more expensive, formal things, and safe will not have accidents can also get more kickbacks, they have to buy inferior products?
If you don't mind the trouble, you can ask them for a pouch for the blood collection needles, and go back to the Internet to check the shelf life, ISO certification, and so on, which is clearly labeled.
Some years ago, the management of medical waste was not very strict, but now there should be a specialized medical waste recycling company, at least here every day we will have a fixed staff to each hospital department to collect, each bag of medical waste but also weighing, records, signatures. It is said to be unified recycling destroyed, it should also be.
Regular medical device production state must be very strict, or else there will be a lot of reports of accidents.