Alastair Willoughby
Alastair Willoughby is Head of Mechanical Engineering, Team Consulting, Cambridge, UK.
JournalPlanning for the future: sustainable medical devices
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are increasingly looking at new ways to incorporate sustainability into their strategies in a bid to help the environment. While existing medical device standards do not address sustainability explicitly, ISO working groups and others are now considering sustainability as an important component of medical device development. The heavily regulated world of medical devices will likely see sustainability standards emerging in the next decade.