I'm in biotech and its a very similar situation here. We're a small company and dropping a few grand on regulatory documents would be a non-issue, a negligible

I'm in biotech and its a very similar situation here. We're a small company and dropping a few grand on regulatory documents would be a non-issue, a negligible part of our operating budget. Having said that, we would rather just pay for consulting/expertise from someone who has experience with the regs rather than interpret them ourselves. I remember buying my first ISO document (INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882-2003) for $30 in like 2005 or something, back when I was still writing code. I thought I would become a better C++ programmer, armed with the standard, but turns out it didn't help me at all (reading books/writing code helped more). I did become a better standards-lawyer though! :D