The Indonesia Halal Assurance Agency has published the Ministry of Religion Decree No.1360/2021 on the Materials Exempted from the Obligation of Halal Certification on their official website. The regulation contains an extensive list of materials exempted and serves as guidance for the regulatory bodies.
More Indonesia's MoH has announced the integration of their licensing system: REGALKES with OSS RBA (Online Single Submission Risk-Based Approach) for new applications of marketing permit and their plans on integrating more licensing services with OSS RBA.
More Starting from February 2022, the Indonesia Ministry of Health is accepting product listing of medical devices and other health equipment for their sectoral e-catalogue for health facilities.
More This guideline applies to medical devices including in vitro diagnostic reagents applying for registration or filing with NMPA in China. This guideline only provides general requirements for the format and content of the product technical requirements (PTR) for medical devices and does not specify specific requirements for certain products.
More In December 2018, TGA has announced that there will be an adjustment of Surgical Mesh Devices to transform from medium risk (Class IIb) to high-risk devices (Class III), in order to meet the highest levels of safety, quality and clinical performance.
Sponsors were given three years to comply with the changes, and from 1 December 2021 onwards TGA has already commenced on cancelling surgical mesh devices in the ARTG as Class IIb entries, who do not have obtained an appropriate conformity assessment certificate for Class III devices prior to the set deadline, or within six months of the conformity assessment certificate for the Class III device being issued.
TGA has listed out 3 different tables, categorising meshes that are eligible for transition, approved surgical mesh devices, and existing Class III surgical mesh devices. This is to inform medical practitioners and hospitals of potential supply disruption of some surgical mesh devices from 1st December 2021, and to provide alternative sources of supply.
As Qualtech offers Authorized Representative (License Holder) Services in 11 countries in Asia and Oceania, the following article outlines some of the benefits for foreign manufacturers associated with assigning a neutral 3rd party as their license holder. In addition, the product registration license conditions for the different ASEAN countries, as well as Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and China are summarized, including license validity, license transfer possibilities etc.
More On 9 December 2021, the Vietnamese government issued Decree No. 111/2021/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 43/2017/ND-CP on Goods Labels, including medical devices ("Decree 111"), which will take effect as of 15 February 2022.
More The US FDA is planning to issue transition plans for medical devices with Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs). The EUA measure had previously been implemented in order to increase related necessary medical product supply on the US market.
As the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic gradually slows down, FDA has published a draft guidance to provide its recommendations to manufacturers, and in order to outline a roadmap for EUA devices to be able to transition after the emergency use declarations are no longer in effect in the future.
Since January 18th, 2022, FDA formally classified the electrocardiograph software for over-the-counter use as class II (special controls).
More Health Sciences Authority (HSA) issued a list of COVID – 19 test kits that are authorized for professional use. These kits have been given authorization under the Pandemic Special Access Route (PSAR) because Professional Use Only (PUO) kits have been designated as “emergency medical devices”.
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