On August 22, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) issued a draft guidance entitled, Predetermined Change Control Plans for Medical Devices. The draft guidance describes how FDA plans to implement new...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) took a number of steps to “advance medical device innovation and help patients gain faster access to beneficial technologies,” as characterized by FDA...more
The summer of 2016 saw a flood of new medical device-related guidance documents coming out of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). Some of these draft guidance documents, such as those addressing device...more
The Draft Guidance may not significantly increase the number of 510(k)s filed, but likely would increase manufacturers’ procedural and documentation burdens. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued...more
On the same day the Food and Drug Administration issued its revised draft guidance document on when to submit a new 510(k) premarket notification for an existing medical device, it released a similar document specific to...more
FDA released two new draft guidances on Monday, August 8 in an attempt to help device manufacturers determine when a modification triggers the obligation to file a new 510(k) under 21 C.F.R. § 807.81(a)(3). The first draft...more
Many of us remember the classic 1972 Brady Bunch song, “Time to Change,” when Peter Brady sings (as his voice cracks), “When It’s Time to Change, You’ve Got to Rearrange,” channeling its inner Brady, the Food and Drug...more
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed guidance on August 8, 2016, regarding software changes to medical devices. The proposed guidance relates to requirements for submitting medical device software...more
On August 5, 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted two long-awaited draft guidance documents intended to help industry and FDA staff determine whether a new premarket notification (510(k)) is required upon...more