How To Cope With The New EU Scrutiny System for IVDs
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
Details of how the EU's forthcoming regulatory scrutiny process will work for higher-risk IVD devices are now known, following the formal acceptance by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union of the amended text of the new IVD Regulation1.
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