Swiss Industry Makes Breakthrough For Local Market Device Labeling

Rules on the labeling needs for medtech products entering the Swiss market have been eased in what is seen by the local industry as a victory for pragmatism.

Valery Shanin

Efforts by the Swiss Medtech industry association to secure less onerous labeling rules for medtech products entering the Swiss market, now that the country’s EU mutual recognition agreement no longer applies, have paid off.

At the end of 2021, the association reached what it describes as a “suitable” agreement with the Federal Office of...

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