While public U.S. companies were preparing to meet their first conflict minerals reporting deadline, their European counterparts were taking their first steps toward implementing a conflict minerals law.

I  have always loved working with military people. Their training firmly builds within them a “can do” mentality and a fixation on mission objectives.

These days, my memory isn’t what it used to be. Besides that, my memory isn’t what it used to be. But my incurable case of CRS (can’t remember stuff) is not nearly as bad as that of the exponential distribution.

Not knowing the answer to the question posed in the title of this article has led many medical device manufacturers to undertake expensive and unnecessary retesting of their previously certified products.