Member states agree on animal tissue product deadline
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
EU member states agreed at the latest European Commission's Medical Device Experts Group (MDEG) meeting on how to deal with the dilemma they are facing over the number of medical devices utilising animal tissues that are on the market but not yet in compliance with the new EU rules for these products which came into force on October 1 in the form on Directive 2003/32/EC.