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20 January 2012

The World Trade Organization 's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) has issued formal notifications of two draft legislation concerning the Brazilian medtech sector 1 ,2 . The notifications are dated 13 January and relate to proposed ...

19 December 2011

From next May, the Brazilian in vitro diagnostics market will be subject to new regulations 1 ,2 . The most important changes will be to the product classification system and how product risk is determined. The reforms introduce a simpler and ...

08 August 2011

The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to hold a public meeting on 13 October to discuss performance evaluation of highly multiplexed microbiology/medical countermeasure (MCM) devices, their clinical application and public health needs, and ...

29 June 2011

The US Food and Drug Administration has published a final rule that confirms a new exception concerning in vitro diagnostics to the general requirements on informed consent but includes a measure to protect against this exception being misused 1 ,2 ...

15 June 2011

The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is seeking comments on its draft manual of the processes and methods involved in its diagnostics assessment programme 1 . NICE expects the programme manual to help manufacturers ...

03 June 2011

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance to clarify how manufacturers should or should not market in vitro diagnostic products that are labelled as "for research use only" (RUO) or "for investigation use only" (IUO) 1,2 ...

 
11 January 2012
Ian Schofield
Much has been made of Denmark's announcement that its presidency of the EU Council of Ministers will be an austere one financially, in the spirit of the times. The Danish government, which took over the presidency from Poland on 1 January, has set ...
 
 
16 November 2010
Eric Lawson, Linda Lebon, Anne-Virginie Eggimann and Anne Dupraz-Poiseau discuss how the regulatory process for companion diagnostics might be improved to realise the potential of personalised medicine. Personalised medicine aims to provide the ...
22 June 2010
Sharon Williams discusses the regulatory hurdles for IVDs. The in vitro diagnostics industry represents one of the most lucrative segments in the global healthcare industry 1 . The global IVD market has been growing at a rate of 5-6% in recent years ...
 
08 October 2009
Please give details of the major acts and directives governing trademarks. Trademarks are governed in Luxembourg by the: Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property: Convention Benelux en matière de propriété intellectuelle (marques et dessins ou ...
08 October 2009
1) Which authority is responsible for overseeing the regulation of medical devices and diagnostics in Spain? Agencia Española del Medicamento, the Spanish agency for medicines and healthcare products (AEMPS) within the Ministry of Health and ...
 
Regulatory Affairs Medtech News Roundup, December 2010
09 December 2010
 
Hungarian IVD association re-elects Ferenc Péterfy president Ferenc Péterfy has been re-elected president of the Hungarian In Vitro Diagnostics Association. The reappointment takes effect in January 2011 and is for a three-year term. Dr Péterfy is also the president of Budapest-based Diagnosticum, which ...
David Horne elected chair of British In Vitro Diagnostic Association David Horne has been appointed chairman of the British In Vitro Diagnostic Association (BIVDA) for a two-year tenure. Mr Horne, who replaces Jeff Watson, is managing director of Alere, formerly Inverness Medical. "I will work to further strengthen ...
 
   
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