The Review and Approval of Innovative Medical Devices
In 2016, China Food and Drug Administration received a total of 197 applications for approval of innovative medical devices, organized expert to review 175 of them, completed the review of 144 (including applications in 2015), and 45 products among them were allowed to enter the special approval channels for innovative medical devices. 10 products were approved to enter the market. Among them, there were 6 active medical devices, 3 passive medical devices, 1 in vitro diagnostic reagents. Compared with 2015, the total number increased by 1.
The core technology of these innovative products have owned China’s invention patent or the invention patent application has been disclosed by the patent administrative departments of State Council, and the main working principle / mechanism of the core technology are initiative in China, with significant clinical application value.
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