India Clarifies Classification Plans For Over 700 Devices & IVDs

India’s new draft list explains how over 700 medical devices and IVDs will be classified under new rules that will come into force in January 2018.

India’s healthcare products regulator has published a draft list of over 700 medical devices and IVDs clarifying how these products will be classified under new rules governing medtech that are scheduled to kick in next year.

The new Medical Devices Rules, 2017, published by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation and...

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