As health products, medical devices and in vitro diagnostic devices fall within ANSM’s scope of action. As part of its market surveillance remit, ANSM ensures that all of these devices available in France are safe, effective, and properly used. As such, it authorises clinical trials, inspects economic operators’ sites, checks the conformity of marketed devices, facilitates innovation, helps construct European regulations on medical and in vitro diagnostic devices, provides individuals or stakeholders who send queries with information and explanations, or guides them in their research.
