• 2021-10-27 07:52:46

Every once in a while, Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) issues notices to announce evaluation principles of “Next-Generation Medical Devices,” to accelerate review and approval process of new medical devices which has high demands and high feasibility of product realization. Since 2008, there have been 27 issuances by MHLW listed in the end of this article.

• 2021-10-27 07:25:14

Recently, MOH has introduced regulations for a total of seventeen COVID-19-related medical device categories, along with their submission dossiers and routes. Specifically, there are seven selective cases that can applied for fast approval. This circular also includes regulation on Import of medical device in view of COVID-19 prevention for purposes of aid.

• 2021-10-27 07:19:29

More than 100 administrative procedures under management of the Ministry of Health have been reduced and simplified with a recently introduced regulation. One of these is to convert Import Permit number to Registration number and to amend requirement on application for fast approval from 2 CFS to 1 CFS.

• 2021-10-27 07:06:19

Effective from June 17, 2021, MDA now allows multiple authorized representatives for each medical device (brand name) placed in the market. On the other hand, they will restrict to requiring individual establishment licenses to carry out role/activity of various economic operators, as prescribed in the Medical Device Regulations 2012.

MDA Circular Letter No. 1/2014 contains two components, which are the establishment that acts as an authorized representative (AR) and the establishment that carries out various activities.

• 2021-10-27 07:01:31

In order to strengthen the supervision and guidance of the registration for medical device and further improve the quality of registration review, NMPA has published a new guidance document focusing on equivalence demonstration in clinical evaluation report of intravascular catheters.

• 2021-10-27 06:53:26

HSA communicated to the public regarding a cybersecurity vulnerability named "BrakTooth". It affects various IOT devices, which includes medical devices that use specific Bluetooth Link Manager Protocols. HSA shared steps to shareholders to avoid or address issues pertaining to BrakTooth.

• 2021-10-27 06:28:50

PFDA published the list of Value Added Tax (VAT) Exempted Medical Devices affected by the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act. CREATE Act affects tax and other financial implications for corporations most especially for pharmaceutical and medical device importers, manufacturers, and distributors.

• 2021-10-27 05:47:59

To protect human health and the environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Thai FDA agreed to abide by the Stockholm Convention. In order to establish control measures, they conducted a survey of products/manufacturing processes that utilize perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds, and benzyl cyanide.

• 2021-10-27 05:29:58

The “Administrative Measures for the Registration and Filing of Medical Devices” have been adopted at the 11th executive meeting of the State Administration for Market Regulation on July 22, 2021. The measures have subsequently been promulgated and have come into effect on October 1, 2021 via Decree No. 47.

• 2021-10-27 05:22:18

A new expert committee has been formed by the Government, to frame new laws for medicines, cosmetics and medical devices in a bid to replace the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act which was formed in 1940.