On September 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its online FAQs, entitled “Adverse Event Reporting for Medical Devices Under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or Discussed in COVID-19-Related Guidance...more
9/11/2020
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On July 28, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the final guidance “Multiple Function Device Products: Policy and Considerations,” which describes FDA's regulatory approach and policy for products with multiple...more
Our Medical Device and Technology team has been at the forefront of the COVID-19 legal response since the pandemic swept across the globe. In just a few short months, our team has taken on nearly 200 matters, ranging from...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday it plans to resume on-site inspections of FDA-regulated facilities and other associated activities the week of July 20, 2020. The agency had temporarily halted most...more
On June 4, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated the Compliance Program Guidance Manual (CPGM) to include a program for “Inspections of CDER-led or CDRH-led Combination Products.”...more
On 18 March 2020, in addition to a series of responses to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it is temporarily postponing all domestic routine surveillance facility...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, referred to as “SweynTooth,” that – if exploited – may introduce risks for certain Bluetooth enabled medical devices. ...more
3/19/2020
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On 10 March 2020, FDA announced that it is postponing most foreign inspections through April 2020. This action comes as the latest in a series of agency responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks in foreign...more
3/11/2020
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We are pleased to provide you with the third annual installment of our Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons guide. For each of these guides, we have asked our industry thought leaders throughout the world to write about...more
2/26/2020
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicated that the long-anticipated proposed rule modernizing the Quality System Regulation (QSR) is now targeted for release in April 2020. This is the second delay in the agency's...more
Drug and medical device manufacturers seeking to export a product from the United States may need to obtain from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a Certificate to Foreign Government (CFG) in order to satisfy the...more
On 1 October 2019 the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) Medical Device Cybersecurity Working Group released a draft document titled "Principles and Practices for Medical Device Cybersecurity" (IMDRF...more
10/10/2019
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On April 23, FDA issued draft guidance entitled “Initiation of Voluntary Recalls Under 21 CFR Part 7, Subpart C,” which aims to clarify how firms in a product distribution chain should prepare to facilitate timely initiation...more
4/26/2019
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In a welcome move, on 1 April 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed reducing regulatory requirements for a number of radiation-emitting electronic products, including radiation-emitting medical devices....more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a final guidance document regarding the use, content, and circumstances for the issuance of public warnings and public notifications for firm-initiated or...more
On 19 February 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the agency) released a draft guidance entitled, "Nonbinding Feedback After Certain FDA Inspections of Device Establishments" (draft guidance) for...more
2/22/2019
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The Medical Device Reporting (MDR) regulation provides a mechanism for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency), as well as medical device manufacturers, to identify and monitor adverse events (deaths,...more
On 17 December 2018 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance document intended to help manufacturers determine the appropriate premarket approval (PMA) application supplement reporting pathway for...more
On 20 November 2018 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Director Jeffrey Shuren released a joint statement regarding updates to the Medical...more
On October 18, 2018, FDA issued a long-awaited draft revision to its existing guidance "Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices"(premarket cybersecurity guidance). This coincided...more
On September 28, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a draft guidance document, entitled "The Special 510(k) Program," which, when finalized, will supersede the currently in effect Special...more
On Friday, September 21, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance titled "Civil Money Penalties Relating to the ClinicalTrials.gov Data Bank."
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On August 17, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the Medical Device Voluntary Malfunction Summary Reporting Program (VMSRP) agreed between industry and the FDA as a part of the Medical Device User Fee...more
On June 12, FDA finalized two guidance documents regarding the types of information that drug and device manufacturers may communicate to payors and that the agency regards as “consistent with" FDA-required labeling. FDA...more
On April 27, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) released a draft guidance, Multiple Function Device Products: Policy and Considerations, addressing the Agency's regulatory approach to medical...more