US Approvals Analysis: Strong Month For IVD De Novos In February
Executive Summary
FDA's increasingly popular de novo classification pathway for moderate-risk devices that have no predicate accounted for five marketing go-aheads last month, four of which were for in vitro diagnostics.
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