IVD UK Spring Meeting: The Costly But Necessary Route To IVDR Compliance
Executive Summary
Second of two articles covering discussion at the spring 2017 meeting of the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association: Not all will survive unscathed as the EU IVD Regulation becomes an operational reality.
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