Tanzania: All Devices Subject to Registration Rules in 2016

Tanzanian health regulators are reminding stakeholders that the second phase of registration for medical devices starts in less than three months.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2016, medical device companies looking to market in Tanzania will need to apply for registration. It extends the mandatory registration list, which went into effect in 2009, according to a notice on the Tanzania Food & Drugs Authority’s website.

Devices covered in the first phase were auto-disable syringes, surgical sutures, examination and surgical gloves, scalp vein set, intravenous cannulae, catheters and tubes, contraceptives, needs, administration sets, blood collection bags, surgical dressing, internal prosthetics replacements, orthopedic implants, bone cements, drug-eluting stents and intraocular lenses.

Read the notice here: http://www.fdanews.com/10-26-15-Tanzania.pdf. — Elizabeth Hollis