Shuren: ‘You Can’t Be Expecting Us To Just Sit Back’
Executive Summary
In a wide-ranging speech at FDLI’s 2023 annual meeting, CDRH director Jeffrey Shuren pledged to move forward with regulatory action on lab-developed tests and sketched plans for improved regulation of medical apps.
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