China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has extended the trial period for its medical device unique device identification (UDI) program in response to the coronavirus pandemic, pushing first-round UDI implementation requirement deadlines to early 2021.
The NMPA announced (link in Chinese) that the impact of the COVID-19 public health emergency in China has necessitated pushing back the regulator’s UDI trial period ending date from October 1, 2020 to January 1 2021…