Industry Preps to Enhance US-UK Ties Post-Brexit: Is Mutual Recognition Possible?

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The UK kicked off trade talks with the US this month in parallel to its Brexit negotiations. Device industry advocates on both sides of the Atlantic are sharing resources to help ensure that a separated UK doesn’t create new medtech regulatory requirements. A longer-term goal: mutual recognition of FDA and UK device approvals in the two countries.

As the UK prepares to go out on its own, British negotiators are keeping busy. Not only are Brexit negotiations with the EU ongoing (remotely during the pandemic), but also trade talks with the US, and some other countries, kicked off this month. That seemed like the right occasion for AdvaMed and its UK counterpart, the Association for British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), to tighten their bonds.

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