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European Commission Publishes Draft Rules In Bid To Reclassify Non-Medical Active Products

 
• By Amanda Maxwell

The European Commission has launched an initiative to ensure products without a medical purpose that fall under the Medical Device Regulation are appropriately classified by risk, and subject to the same pre- and post-market requirements as comparable medical devices.

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The European Commission has published a draft implementing regulation on the reclassification of certain active products that fall under the scope of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR), but which do not have an intended medical purpose.

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