EU revising animal tissue device directive by end 2011
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The European Commission is working on revising Directive 2003/32/EC1 on medical devices that incorporate tissues of animal origin with the possibility of an amended document being adopted through the Article 7 committee during the second half of 2011.
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