Worldwide FDA Experts for Medical Device, IVD, Pharmaceutical Industries
Worldwide FDA Experts for Medical Device, IVD, Pharmaceutical Industries
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) primary responsibility is the enforcement of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act that tasked the agency with protecting and promoting public health and authorized the “legality of an FDA inspection, conducted at a reasonable time, within reasonable limits, and in a reasonable manner, depends not on consent but on the validity of statutory authority.” (Compliance Policy Guide Sec 130.100) This means that FDA does not require consent to conduct an inspection and that any firm that registers with the FDA for the manufacture of either Drug, Biologics or Medical Devices will likely be subject to an inspection at some point. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) is the lead office for all agency field activities. ORA inspects regulated products and manufacturers, conducts sample analyses of regulated products and reviews imported products offered for entry into the United States. ORA operates on a risk-based approach, meaning they will prioritize their inspection schedules on those higher risk regulated...
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In late 2019, the FDA introduced a new Safety and Performance Based Pathway which can potentially speed up the preparation and review process for certain submitters of pre-market notification medical device submissions. This optional pathway was created by the FDA to assist with well understood device types, in which a submitter references device specific guidance’s detailing the appropriate testing standards, as well as defined performance criteria to demonstrate the device is as safe and effective as a legally marketed device. Under the approach expanded in the Safety and Performance Based Pathway guidance, a submitter could satisfy the requirement to compare its device with a legally marketed device by, among other things, demonstrating that the device’s performance meets established performance criteria. These performance criteria are derived from FDA-recognized consensus standards, FDA guidance’s, scientific literature, special controls and historical 510(k) submission data. In all 510(k) submissions performance data is critical to proving a state of substantial equivalence to a predicate device and is often the most time consuming and complicated part...
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Over-the-Counter (OTC) drug monographs represent current regulatory standards for the marketing of non-prescription drug products not covered by new drug applications. These standards provide the marketing conditions for some OTC drug products including the active ingredients, labeling, and other general requirement in the US, OTC drug medicines making up around 60% of all medicines (Prescription (Rx) and Non-Prescription). Developed in 1972, the OTC monograph system has been instrumental in lowering the cost of entry and standardizing requirements across different formulations, however progress in moving forward in adding and amending monographs has not kept up with expectations of the FDA or industry mostly due to an outdated, multi-layered rulemaking process. This caused a large OTC Monograph backlog in which product labels could take years to update. As a response to this, included in the CARES Act, (implemented into law on March 27, 2020) is a major piece of federal legislation that amends the FD&C Act to modernize the OTC drug review and OTC monograph drug development process, essentially by removing...
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