Oh Yu-kyung, Director of MFDS, "We will strengthen export support for the global competitiveness of K-medical devices"

Oh Yu-kyung, Commissioner of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety [Photo by Yonhap News]

Oh Yu-kyung, Commissioner of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, emphasized on the 28th, “We will strengthen strategic export support so that K-medical devices can be competitive in the global market, and to this end, we plan to continuously innovate the regulatory system to back this up.”

On the same day, Commissioner Oh held a meeting with medical device industry officials and associations at the headquarters of Megagen Implant in Seoul, discussing the future development of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and plans for regulatory innovation.

Commissioner Oh stated, “We will actively promote the core brand project in the medical device field, the ‘K-Medical Device MEGA Project,’ to revitalize exports, and we will spare no administrative and policy support to creatively solve various problems faced by companies through continuous regulatory innovation.” The MEGA Project refers to the intensive support throughout the entire cycle from product development to export by discovering and selecting product groups and items that have international competitiveness and can dominate the global market.

Before the meeting, Commissioner Oh visited Megagen Implant to encourage employees who received the first European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) certification for implants in Korea and received explanations about major export products.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety stated that it will continue to do its best to serve as a partner that organically communicates and cooperates with the industry and organizations so that K-medical devices can overcome global technical regulatory barriers and enter the global market.

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