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The EU Court’s Schrems II judgement – urgent revisiting of international personal data transfer mechanisms required

23 Jul 2020, Erik Vollebregt

Wasn’t the MDR about More Data Required, and the same for the IVDR? Aren’t more and more devices running software that processes patient and user data? Isn’t the medical devices industry a very international business? Indeed – so the ability for companies working with the MDR and IVDR to transfer personal data internationally for all […]

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Impossible and Incredible And Yet Really Happened

10 Jul 2020, Karin Verzijden 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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Standardisation request for MDR and IVDR refused; now what?

21 Jun 2020, A new blog post, a new step in the soap that is the non-transitional period of the MDR and the IVDR. I have jokingly paraphrased the absurdist painter Magritte by saying “céci…

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Standardisation request for MDR and IVDR refused – now what?

20 Jun 2020, A new blog post, a new step in the soap that is the non-transitional period of the MDR and the IVDR. I have jokingly paraphrased the absurdist painter Magritte by saying “céci…

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Standardisation request for MDR and IVDR refused – now what?

20 Jun 2020, Erik Vollebregt

A new blog post, a new step in the soap that is the non-transitional period of the MDR and the IVDR. I have jokingly paraphrased the absurdist painter Magritte by saying “céci n’est pas une période de transition”. I’m contemplating starting a T-shirts business with memes for the MDR and IVDR, with that meme and […]

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The urgency with IVDs and the IVDR

08 Jun 2020, Many people ask me these days: why the urgency with IVDs? The IVDR’s date of application (26 May 2022) is still almost two years away. Why the hurry? The hurry has everything…

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Date of Entry into Force plus three years and a little bit

04 Jun 2020,  Last week  we went past DoE (Date of Entry into force) of the MDR plus three years, and the date on which the MDR was supposed to have become applicable. As you,…

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Labeling and Advertising of Alternative Protein

12 May 2020, Karin Verzijden Sneak peek of Vitafoods Protein Summit Consumers nowadays tend to include more and more plant-based products into their diet. For instance, a study ordered by DuPont Nutrition established double digits of growth for non-dairy ice-cream, dairy and cheese during the year preceding June 2018.  More recently, NPR published an overview demonstrating which products were most […]

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Towards 100 % recyclable or re-usable plastic food packaging in 10 years

04 May 2020, Jasmin Buijs What would food be without packaging? And what does packaging mostly consist of? Of course: plastic! To date, only few other materials have proved as reliable for food packaging as plastic. At the same time, we know that plastic has many disadvantages for the environment. Read this blogpost to be informed on the most important […]