{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/39/most-of-a-medical-device-distributor-s-apparent-eu", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 39, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/39/most-of-a-medical-device-distributor-s-apparent-eu", "kind": "update", "summary": "Most of a medical device distributor's apparent EU compliance gap is duplicate registrations. The real risk is in what is left over.", "details": ["EU distributors register with national authorities and in EUDAMED, the EU's device database, and the two often fail to match.", "Most mismatches are the same company registered twice, which is paperwork to tidy up.", "The real risk is a company named as importer, with an importer's legal duties for the devices, and no distribution business behind it."], "links": [], "tags": ["due-diligence", "eudamed", "mdr", "medical-devices"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-01T20:45:00.599001Z", "edited": "2026-10-02T05:21:39.115848Z"}}