AccuVein products OKd for sale in China

AccuVein Inc. has had its products approved for sale in China.

The Huntington company makes a medical device that eases injections and intravenous tube insertions by illuminating veins beneath the skin. The device is "the world's first handheld, non-contact vein" illuminator, AccuVein said.

China's State Food and Drug Administration gave the all-clear for distribution by Hong Kong Fortune Life Trade Ltd.

The company announcement Wednesday of the trade breakthrough said that its merchandise is "now available to majority of the world's population."

The AccuVein AV300 is now available in 88 countries representing two-thirds of the world's population.

Newsday reported in July that AccuVein got $22.5 million in funding from outside investors, in the form of second-stage, or series B, financing meant to help it expand in the United States and internationally.