Brussels, 07/05/2013 (Agence Europe) - The manufacturers of medical devices are not happy with the proposal put forward by Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (S&D, Germany), the rapporteur on medical devices, to create a centralised surveillance body that approves products before they are marketed in the EU, after the fashion of the body that already exists in the United States.
Eucomed, which represents the interests of the medical device industry, states this could “confront patients in Europe with...