Designing a new medical device is a bit more complicated than designing a toaster or an automotive cooling system. Besides the issues common to any product—feasibility, usability, and design for manufacture and assembly—there are also issues of biocompatibility, sterilization and FDA regulations to deal with.
WASHINGTON—Labor regulations implemented during the Obama administration could cost an estimated $81 billion over the next 10 years and require more than 400 million hours in paperwork, according to a new study from the National Association of Manufacturers’ Center for Manufacturing Research.
BEIJING—Air pollution levels were literally off the charts here over the weekend, reportedly reducing visibility to about 100 yards in some areas and prompting some flight cancellations. Residents in several Chinese cities have been advised to stay indoors, and at least four deaths have been blamed on the smog.
WASHINGTON—A new report finds that U.S. manufacturers are subject to 2,183 different federal regulations promulgated since 1981, and those regulations will decrease the nation’s GDP by as much as $630 billion this year.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Zimmer Holdings Inc. about its practices for manufacturing and testing hip implants at an assembly plant in Puerto Rico.
