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Happy 2025 – more churn for MDR and IVDR!

Happy new year everyone! I hope you had a good rest over the holidays because 2025 will be interesting. I am planning to revive this blog this year and hope to put new energy in it by making it more periodical with smaller bits of information and shorter analysis. You will still get my unique […]



Impossible and Incredible And Yet Really Happened

What can we learn from the Impossible vs. Incredible case in the Netherlands? At the end May this year, the Court of The Hague rendered a remarkable judgment: at the request of Impossible Foods, Nestlé was banned from launching its INCREDIBLE BURGER in the EU. How is this possible? Impossible Foods is not even on […]


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Happy New Year – with all those developments

The end of the year is upon us, and I’d like to take the opportunity to wish the readers of this blog all the best for the new year, a new year…
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E-labelling regulation published, no changes / big disappointment

Just before last weekend the final e-labelling regulation was published in the Official Journal of the EU, see right here. As you will see when you run a compare (like I did)…
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The new EU MEDDEV on stand-alone software as medical device

Some time ago I already gave you a look under the hood of it and now it is here, the new MEDDEV on stand alone software: an interesting document that provides a…
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Regulating Medical Software and nothing new on the Recast

Today I attended the COCIR workshop Regulating Medical Software in Brussels, a very interesting event that brought a lot of new information to my attention and I had the opportunity to speak…
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EU Court judgment may add 6.5% customs tariff burden for parts/accessories of medical devices

And now for something completely different: customs tariffs. Dry stuff, but it makes all the difference for the price of the device. Indeed, ‘parts’ and/or ‘accessories’ under heading 9018 of the Combined…
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