• 2025-09-24 07:40:52

PMDA has revised the approach to biological safety evaluation and abolished the previous notification issued on Jan 6, 2020. The revised approach focuses on providing practical instructions for preparing regulatory submissions.

• 2025-07-10 09:45:06

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is enforcing the implementation of the new JIS standard for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) (JIS T 0601-1-2:2023) as of February 25, 2026.

• 2025-01-22 09:19:30

In 2024, Qualtech Consulting Corporation achieved significant milestones, including expanding our services to support Korean MFDS registrations, celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Malaysian office, and hosting impactful webinars addressing regulatory and market opportunities in Europe, ASEAN, Brazil, and India. As we prepare for 2025, we are focused on expanding knowledge-sharing efforts, entering emerging markets such as Latin America and the Middle East, and celebrating 25 years of supporting medical device manufacturers globally.

• 2024-06-20 06:09:46

This announcement outlines measures to reinforce the supervision and management of commissioned production by medical device registrants, ensuring the full implementation of quality and safety responsibilities and effective risk prevention and control in accordance with regulations.

• 2023-11-20 01:57:54

This Q&A document answers questions on transitional provisions for products without an intended medical purpose covered by Annex XVI of the MDR.

• 2023-06-28 07:48:07

This guidance aims to provide a clear understanding of what changes to design or intended purpose would be considered 'significant'. It also provides several flowcharts in order to facilitate a harmonised judgement of the significance of a change.

• 2023-04-25 01:59:50

Regulation (EU) 2023/607 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2023 amends the MDR and the IVDR as regards to the transitional provisions for certain medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices.

• 2023-02-23 02:05:29

In order to supervise medical device registrants taking the responsibilities for medical device quality and safety, NMPA has issued the so-called "Regulations on Enterprises Implementing the Supervision and Management of Responsibilities for Medical Device Quality and Safety".

• 2022-10-25 03:59:10

PFDA announced that alcohol swab product registrations will be transferred to the Center for Drug Regulation Research (CDRR). In the same month, PFDA also published a circular that aims to provide guidelines on the use of the FDA eServices Portal System for LTO applications of retailers of Medical Devices.

• 2022-06-29 02:14:40

MDCG 2022-6 provides clarifications on the concept of ‘significant changes in the design and intended purposes’ under IVDR Article 110(3). It concerns manufacturers of devices that are compliant with Directive 98/79/EC (IVDD) and that are placed on the market or put into service after 26th May 2022 during the transition period.