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Regulatory Experts React As UK Gov Asks Heavy Engineering Firms To Produce Ventilators

 
• By Amanda Maxwell

Medtech regulatory parameters could be shifting as the UK makes an unprecedented call for other industries to produce ventilators to deal with the current COVID-19 situation.

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All of a sudden, the prospect of pulling thousands of products off the EU medtech market overnight simply because they have failed to comply with the new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) on time on 26 May looks like an over-reaction compared with what is now being proposed in the UK.

On 15 March, it emerged that the UK government is asking car and heavy equipment engineering firms to produce medical...

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