INDIA REQUIRES MORE NEW DEVICES TO BE REGISTERED UNDER NEW MEDICAL DEVICE RULES, 2017

India’s Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) has officially published new medical device rules. adding eight more medical devices to the list requiring registration. The new additions are:

(1) X-ray machines,
(2) CT scan equipment,
(3) MRI equipment,
(4) PET equipment,
(5) defibrillators,
(6) dialysis machines,
(7) bone marrow cell separators,
(8) all implantable medical devices.

Manufacturers and Importers of products under these categories need to immediately apply for import licenses in Form MD-14 of the Medical Device Rules, 2017. Products without valid registrations may not be imported and marketed after April 1, 2020.

The mandate was published in the Gazette of India on February 8th, 2019 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Department of Health and Family Welfare). The published announcement constitutes Gazetting, officially implementing the new policy.

The resolution to regulate this list of devices was originally raised 10 months earlier at the May 16th, 2018 Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) meeting.

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