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Life Sciences weekly highlights—22 September 2022

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Published on: 22 September 2022

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Manufacture, marketing and sale
Guidance on appropriate surveillance under IVDR published
CHMP proposes changing marketing authorisation status for vaccines
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This week's edition of Life Sciences weekly highlights includes news that the Medical Device Coordination Group published guidance on appropriate surveillance for the transitional provisions under Article 110 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR)) and the Human Medicines Committee proposal to change the conditional marketing authorisations of two coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.

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