Medical devices: State politics jump to • Table.Briefings

The EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) should increase the safety and transparency of medical devices. But manufacturers and doctors warn that many products could disappear from the market. Now German state politicians are standing up for the economically important industry.

It was scandals involving defective breast implants that drove the already overdue revision of current medical device legislation at the EU level. At the turn of the millennium, breast pads filled with soya oil lost their CE certificate when it emerged that they could tear or leak.

Medical devices: State politics jump to the industry’s aid

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