The European Commission have designated five EU reference laboratories for high-risk in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) under Regulation (EU) 2023/2713. These labs will enhance conformity assessments and advisory tasks for devices related to critical health areas like hepatitis, retroviruses, bacterial agents and life-threatening respiratory viruses. The labs are expected to start testing IVDs from October 1, 2024, for tasks…
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MedTech Europe have published a position paper The Future of Europe’s Medical Technology Regulations. This paper describes MedTech Europe’s vision for an efficient, innovation-focused, and well-governed regulatory framework. It addresses healthcare access challenges resulting from the structural issues of the European regulatory system. MedTech Europe has called out for comprehensive reform addressing the three key areas of efficiency, innovation and…
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Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) is the meeting of the EU Ministers of Health. The upcoming EPSCO meeting agenda includes the implementation of IVDR and MDR with information from the French delegation, supported by the Belgian, German, Irish and Italian delegations. EPSCO is the meeting of the EU Ministers of Health. A public debate is proposed.…
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MedTech Europe have published a position paper The Future of Europe’s Medical Technology Regulations. This paper describes MedTech Europe’s vision for an efficient, innovation-focused, and well-governed regulatory framework. It addresses healthcare access challenges resulting from the structural issues of the European regulatory system. MedTech Europe has called out for comprehensive reform addressing the three key areas of efficiency, innovation and…
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Sertio Oy from Finland is designated as a notified body under the Regulation on In vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (2017/746, IVDR). To date, there are twelve notified bodies designated under the EU IVDR. This designation was published on NANDO database on 31 October September 2023. This can be considered as significant news to the European diagnostics industry.
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