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Navigate Medical Device Approvals with the ASCA Program

Recently, FDA authorized and kicked off a new accreditation program bringing to the medical device industry a new option for medical device testing. The FDA’s Accreditation Scheme for Conformity Assessment (ASCA) Program is designed to streamline the premarket approval process for medical devices and is detailed in a draft guidance released by the FDA on September 23, 2024. The ASCA

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New Updated 2023 FDA Final Guidance Significantly Changing Premarket Submissions Requirements for Medical Device Software

Medical Device software continues to evolve and change as do FDA regulations.  When it comes to the content of the software documentation requirements for a pre-market submission (510k), the FDA’s last issued guidance back in 2005.  However, on June 14 2023, FDA released a new and revised final guidance document which substantially alters software requirements for 510k submissions by changing

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Workflow Driving Innovative Medical Device Development

In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist, stated “Software is Eating the World”. Ten years later, software development has accelerated and expanded  industries that could not have been imagined a decade ago. Automated medical devices are central to this phenomenon and complex software programs with increasingly advanced algorithms are designed to operate with hardware in order to fulfill its intended

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An Overview of FDA Inspections across Drugs, Biologics and Medical Devices

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

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New Medical Device Pathway: Safety and Performance Based Pathway

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,

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2020 Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drug Monographs Reform Summary

Updated: March 26, 2021 – FDA has stated that MDF facility fees will be $20,322, and CMO facility fees will be $13,548. 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

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How to Register a Hand Sanitizer Product in the US

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, world-wide demand has soared for hand sanitizer and anti-viral products. Below, we outline five basic steps for domestic and foreign manufacturers or domestic distributors who want to get their drug product into the US market but never dealt with the FDA’s electronic drug registration and listing. The scope of products includes: Rx (Prescription Drugs) and

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FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Face Masks/Respirators to Expedite Importation into U.S

Due to the novel coronavirus/SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 rapid infection rate, as well the viruses ability to create asymptomatic carriers, resulting in major societal disruptions and shutdowns have occurred throughout the world, but nowhere has this pandemic hit hardest than within the health care systems, hospitals and clinics. Due to the enormous surge of critical care, there is a massive demand and shortage

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