European Regulatory Roundup, November 2022: EU MDR Situation Now Critical
Executive Summary
Damage limitation action is expected imminently to try and stem the flow of medtech products being taken off the EU market. And it cannot come quickly enough as evidence continues to mount of the negative fall-out resulting from the way the EU’s new medical device regulations have been, and are being, implemented.
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