DURHAM, N.C., February 6, 2018 — Two Premier Research medical device experts will examine the impact of upcoming changes to European medical device regulations at Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Medical Devices Europe 2018. Joanne Emmett, Vice President for Medical Device and Diagnostics, and Janet Kube, Director, Project Management, will discuss the new EU Medical Device Regulation on February 7 at the conference in Munich.
Topics will include:
- How the transition to the new medical device and in vitro device regulations will require that all products with CE mark certification be recertified over a period of four to six years.
- A provision that allows authorities to take a second look at technical documentation prior to CE approval of high-risk devices and requires Notified Bodies to submit new technical review reports, potentially delaying submissions.
- Stricter comparative evaluation rules that will make it much harder to demonstrate product safety and performance using equivalence data. The new rules require more data, and it will be more rigorously interpreted.
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