Private-equity roll-ups of medical device distributors leave thousands of orphaned EU registrations. A sale is usually when they get fixed.

• 45% of large EU distributors have a national registration with no matching EUDAMED record, so a mismatch alone is normal.
• In Belgium, PE roll-ups account for 48,652 notifications left pointing at companies merged away. Every other case combined accounts for 103.
• Nobody pays to clean them up until a sale, an absorption or an insolvency forces it.

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