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12/2008 Japan has adopted a new five year Action Program that will triple the number of medical device reviewers by 2013 and substantially improve review times in exchange for higher user fees. The program, which was negotiated with industry, will take effect in April 2009.

11/2008 AdvaMed participates in WHO Priority Medical Devices meeting n Geneva

11/2008 AdvaMed cosponsors training program for China SFDA on post market surveillance and recalls

6/2008 AdvaMed leads delegation of interested companies to the WHO IGWG meeting in Geneva

5/2008 SFDA agreed to extend the products registration validity from four years to five year for In-Vitro products.

4/2008 Joe Almeida meets with MHLW and PMDA to discus ways to improve Japan Regulatory Procedures.

The APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum (LSIF), in partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, is organizing the February 17 - 20 APEC anti-counterfeit medical products seminar in Mexico City. For more information, please click here.



Steve Ubl and MP Penning


Nancy Travis and Korean FDA Director Park


Caroll Neubauer - B.Braun, Germany
MOH Ulla Schmidt and Stephen Ubl

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