Out with the old: wave of new EU standards arriving in coming months
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Over the next few months, a series of key EU medtech standards will be withdrawn and superseded by updated texts. According to an update by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), most of these new standards became available in 2013, but two concerning cardiovascular implants and extracorporeal systems were agreed in January this year and the versions that are currently in use will become obsolete at the end of July.
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