@bunsenburner:
That is interesting, does the same thing apply with approval of a new drug (rather than a delivery device)? While I know in some things FDA approval is ridiculously long (in cosmetics, for example, the FDA allows things the European regulators have banned, and there are safe replacements for those that the FDA has dragged its feet on), I have heard that with new drugs European countries are as tough if not tougher, hence my original post…