# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Most of a medical device distributor's apparent EU compliance gap is duplicate registrations. The real risk is in what is left over.

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### 2026-10-01 update #due-diligence #eudamed #mdr #medical-devices
Most of a medical device distributor's apparent EU compliance gap is duplicate registrations. The real risk is in what is left over.
- 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.

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