Consultancy to support industry in China:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The German company Dr. Muller-Lierheim GmbH has established a joint venture medical device consultancy company with the Zhejiang Medical Device Institute, to be called the Zhejiang ML Medical Device Consultant Company Ltd., Hangzhou. The new company will offer information and expertise to Chinese manufacturers and also support the marketing of foreign devices to China. The Zhejiang institute operates one of the nine testing centres of the State Pharmaceutical Administration of China, while Dr. Muller-Lierheim's subsidiary, mdc, is a notified body for certification of medical devices in Europe. Mdc has recently audited 13 Chinese device manufacturers.