ISO 13485 Tops Latest EU Medtech Standards List
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The publication of EN ISO 13485:2016, the newly revised medical device quality management systems standard, was the most significant among the list of latest EU standards published from CEN and CENELEC, the European standards institutions1.
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