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EU Issues Brief Technical Update On UDI-DI Code Presentation

 
• By Amanda Maxwell

There has been a recent update related to how Unique Device Identification (UDI) will be applied to medical devices in the EU. It limits the number of characters that are used in a code and provides a check digit.

The EU’s Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG), the European Commission’s medical device governance body, has endorsed and issued two very brief guiding principles relating to rules on Basic UDI-DI for issuing entities.

Together, they represent a technical update, but medtech and IVD companies may be relieved to see a limit to the...

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