News & Analysis as of

Life Sciences Regulatory Oversight Manufacturers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FDA Moves Forward on Fluoropolymers

On August 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became the latest governmental agency to confirm that fluoropolymers are both safe and necessary. After an independent safety review of fluoropolymers in medical...more

Gardner Law

The Importance of a Clinical Trial Strategy

Gardner Law on

Developing a medical product, such as a medical device, comes with important milestones that can cause a project to sink or swim. One major milestone is amassing the clinical data needed to support pre-market submissions....more

Gardner Law

Are FDA Review Timelines Slipping? What Companies Need to Know

Gardner Law on

As noted in our earlier alert, the FDA continues to face mounting internal pressure, ranging from staffing reductions and document backlogs to operational restructuring. While core review functions are still running, early...more

A&O Shearman

New CJEU ruling on the borderline between medicinal products and medical devices: Key takeaways

A&O Shearman on

The boundary between medicinal products and medical devices remains a recurring issue for companies developing or marketing borderline products and courts, which has already been the subject of numerous decisions. Recently,...more

Goodwin

A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q4 2023 and Beyond

Goodwin on

As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

FDA Announces Guidance for DSCSA Process to Request a Waiver, Exception, or Exemption

Quarles & Brady LLP on

On Friday, August 4th, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced the availability of a final guidance document, titled “Waivers, Exceptions, and Exemptions From the Requirements of Section 582 of the Federal Food,...more

Hogan Lovells

Can sterile drug manufacturers implement EU GMP Annex 1 requirements before August?

Hogan Lovells on

In August 2022, the European Commission published a revision to Annex 1 “Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products” in EudraLex - Volume 4 - Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines that will significantly impact...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

UK Medical Device Regulator Proposes a 12 Month Delay for UKCA Requirements and the New Medical Device Regulations

McDermott Will & Schulte on

On Friday 21st October 2022, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wrote to the medical device industry to explain its intention: - To extend the current standstill period by twelve months from...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Virtual Event] 36th Annual FDA Boot Camp - March 24th - 25th, 8:15 am - 1:45 pm EDT

ACI’s FDA Boot Camp returns in a completely interactive virtual format to help life sciences attorneys and executives to master the fundamentals of FDA Regulation... Gain essential working knowledge of core FDA concepts,...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.02.2019 | Top Story: US Restores Metal Tariffs on Argentina and Brazil

Robins Kaplan LLP on

The White House will again slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Argentina and Brazil in an apparent reaction to “massive devaluation” of  currencies in both South American nations....more

Hogan Lovells

Harmonizing cybersecurity for medical devices: International collaboration moves forward

Hogan Lovells on

On 1 October 2019 the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) Medical Device Cybersecurity Working Group released a draft document titled "Principles and Practices for Medical Device Cybersecurity" (IMDRF...more

Hogan Lovells

New MDCG Guidance on Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance under the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR)

Hogan Lovells on

On 26 September 2019, the European Commission published a new Guidance of the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) concerning the Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance (SSCP). This document is aimed at manufacturers...more

Hogan Lovells

European Commission draft implementing regulation on the reprocessing of single-use medical devices: public consultation is open!

Hogan Lovells on

On 23 July 2019, the European Commission published the draft Commission Implementing Regulation (hereafter “Draft”) regarding Common Specifications for the reprocessing of single-use medical devices....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Digital Health in the United Kingdom: The New Regulatory Environment Under the Medical Device Regulation

The MDR and other recent developments in the health care regulatory landscape pose new opportunities and challenges for medical software companies and investors in digital health in the United Kingdom. Although the regulatory...more

Hogan Lovells

New Brexit Q&A provides several examples in relation to the “placing on the EU market” of products including medical devices

Hogan Lovells on

On 1 February 2019, the European Commission published a new Q&A document to give further guidance on the Notice to stakeholders-withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of industrial products (“the Notice”)....more

Hogan Lovells

The FDA now offers cGMP Declarations

Hogan Lovells on

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Export Certificate office, a new online application. ...more

Hogan Lovells

CDRH's Voluntary Malfunction Summary Reporting Program

Hogan Lovells on

On August 17, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the Medical Device Voluntary Malfunction Summary Reporting Program (VMSRP) agreed between industry and the FDA as a part of the Medical Device User Fee...more

Hogan Lovells

MDR and IVDR: the European Commission published some guidance documents

Hogan Lovells on

On 9 August 2018, the European Commission published five new documents intended to provide guidance to manufacturers concerning the implementation of the EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical...more

Hogan Lovells

Updated EMA guidance on centrally authorised medicines raises new considerations for Brexit preparations

Hogan Lovells on

On 19 June 2018, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published updates to its Brexit Q&A document for human and veterinary medicines authorised via the centralised procedure and to its practical procedural guidance on making...more

Hogan Lovells

The South African pharmaceutical regulatory environment

Hogan Lovells on

Our local pharmaceutical environment is highly regulated.The most important legislative provisions are found in the Medicines Act and the Pharmacy Act....more

20 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide