Zeiss Visulink Reflects Rise In Device Class I Recall Notifications
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Carl Zeiss Meditec's Class I voluntary recall is part of a recent uptick in FDA announcements related to the most serious type of device recalls
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