EU Parliament stops short of U.S.-style approvals for medical devices

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Parliament backed plans on Tuesday to tighten EU rules on medical devices that stopped short of a U.S.-style pre-marketing approval system that industry had warned would delay the introduction of new treatments. Proposals to toughen up European Union legislation on medical devices followed a 2011 scandal involving France's now defunct Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), which for up to a decade made substandard breast implants that were used by hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. ...



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