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EU IVD law overshadowed by overhaul of the CE mark

April 5, 2013
By Amanda Pedersen
All hell broke loose in Europe last year after a French manufacturer was busted for substituting an industrial grade silicon in breast implants with a sub-standard gel used in mattresses. The European Parliament issued the PIP Resolution about a year ago demanding a credible response to the scandal in which up to 500,000 women in 65 countries may have received implants from Poly Implant Prothese (PIP; La Seyne-sur-Mer, France).
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