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Thousands of small focused medical device manufacturers including UTMD that do not have the overhead structure that the few large medical device companies can afford are increasingly burdened with bureaucratic and underqualified regulator demands that are not reasonably related to assuring the safety or effectiveness of the devices that they provide.
+Added: In Europe, recent regulatory changes requiring clinically well-accepted devices used safely for decades to be rigorously reapproved every few years ignores the obvious outcome that millions in dollars in additional regulatory cost may cause devices with specialized applications with only thousands of dollars in revenues to no longer be available to patients who need them.
Premarketing submission administrative burdens, and substantial “user fees” or notified body review fees, represent a significant non-clinical and/or non-scientific barrier to new product introduction, resulting in lack of investment or delays to revenues from new or improved devices.
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As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly bureaucratic it puts smaller companies like UTMD at a competitive disadvantage:
−Removed: An aging population and uncontrolled immigration is placing greater burdens on healthcare systems, particularly hospitals.
+Added: An aging population and previously uncontrolled immigration are placing greater burdens on healthcare systems, particularly hospitals.
The length of time and number of administrative steps required in adopting new products for use in hospitals has grown substantially in recent years.
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made raw materials and components are likely being purchased in fixed USD.
−Removed: Trade restrictions and /or tariffs resulting from changing government geopolitical trade policies have the potential to disrupt UTMD’s supply chain.
−Removed: Current lack of predictability of demand from a major OEM customer representing 17% of total consolidated sales in 2023.
+Added: Trade restrictions and /or tariffs resulting from changing government geopolitical trade policies have the potential to disrupt UTMD’s supply chain and/or affect costs.
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