Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on December 7 that in order to grasp the development trend of medical device regulations in different countries, promote the harmonization of regulations with those of advanced countries, and assist the domestic industry to enter the international market, the FDA will hold the "Conference on International Medical Device Regulations 2022" through an online course from today to December 2. More than 250 participants from the industry, government, academia and research sectors have signed up to attend the conference.

According to TFDA, officials from Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand and Australia have been invited to share their experiences on medical device regulations, and Australian officials will share their country's medical device management system in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In addition, with the advancement of technology, medical device software has been widely used in people's lives. TFDA invited experts from Singapore to share their experiences on the regulatory policies of medical device products related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a view to helping the domestic industry to better understand the regulatory requirements of medical devices in other countries, thereby promoting international cooperation and marketing, and enhancing the competitiveness of our industry in the international market.

According to TFDA, over the past decade, Taiwan has been actively promoting the international harmonization of medical device laws and has successfully established channels of communication and cooperation with medical device authorities in various countries through international regulatory harmonization organizations such as the GHWP (Global Harmonization Working Party).

In order to assist Taiwan's medical device industry in its global deployment, TFDA continues to update and improve the domestic medical device regulatory system on the one hand, and to assist the industry in actively understanding medical device regulations around the world on the other. It is hoped that through this seminar, Taiwan's medical device industry can be updated on the latest medical device regulations in different countries and better understand their contents, thus reducing the obstacles for the industry to sell their products to the international market.