<h1 class="entry-title">Category: Harmonized Standards</h1>

EU MDR Notified Body Demanding Use of Harmonized Standards

March 21, 2023   EU MDR Notified Body Demanding Use of Harmonized Standards   Your notified body seems to be employing a classic infamous misuse of harmonized standards for the MDD and/or EU MDR.  I generally advise our clients to respectfully, carefully, and legislatively, push back on such misuse.  But without seeing the full details […]

Standards Aren’t Required, but are Recommended, to Show European Conformity

September 28, 2021 Standards Aren’t Required, but are Recommended, to Show European Conformity   You may have heard a rumor that conformity with harmonized standards or other non-harmonized standards is mandatory when showing conformity with the IVDD, MDD, IVDR, or MDR.  But that is not the intent of these European Directives and Regulations.  Instead, Europe […]