The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its long-awaited final rule to amend the Quality System Regulation’s (QSR’s) current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements for medical devices. The final rule...more
Amid reported shortages of ventilators, accessories, and other respiratory devices resulting from the spread of novel coronavirus COVID-19, FDA issued a letter to health care providers and new guidance on 22 March 2020,...more
On Tuesday, FDA announced the availability of a draft guidance, “Principles of Premarket Pathways for Combination Products,” with high-level information on ways to bring combination products to market....more
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed set of new regulations to further define and update the De Novo review process. Although De Novo review has been available for two decades, for the past 20...more
On 26 November 2018 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Director Jeffrey Shuren issued a joint statement proposing to rebrand and modernize the...more
On May 15, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed amending its product classification rules for combination products, found in 21 CFR Part 3. Generally, the proposed rule purports to clarify language in the...more
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be closing in on solving one of its perennial regulatory problems, namely, the absence of a workable regulatory pathway for devices that seek to use older, mainly generic drugs in...more
On September 26, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final guidance document providing further clarity on how FDA classifies a product as a drug, device, biological product, or a combination product,...more
In follow up to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) late July announcement of the Digital Health Innovation Action Plan and the pilot Software Precertification (Pre-Cert) program, the Agency held an August 1, 2017,...more