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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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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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EU regulation of e-labelling of medical devices to apply as of 1 March 2013

On 23 September 2011 the draft of the e-labelling regulation that I wrote about earlier was discussed in the comitology committee for the Medical Devices Directive. I received the text of the…
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EU Regulation on e-Labeling of Medical Devices expected to enter into force end this year

On 8 June the European Commission published a draft regulation on e-labeling as part of their WTO Technical Barriers Trade activities. Up to now, e-labelling was problematic and regulated in a fragmented way….
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More on advertising of medical devices – much more

As I have written before on this blog, medical devices are spectacularly unregulated by medical devices specific EU legislation when it comes to advertising and marketing. That does not mean however that…
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Outlines of the medical devices Recast become more fixed with Council conclusions

Since the High Level Meeting end of March where the Commission outlined its plans for the Recast of the Medical Devices Directive and took stock of the feelings about it in the…
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