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QMSR Harmonization Curiously Missing from Spring 2023 Regulatory Agenda

FDA Law Blog

Part 820 with a newly named Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR) (see here ). The proposed rule was published on February 23, 2022 and was first heralded by FDA in 2018 and introduced in the Spring 2018 regulatory agenda. This suggests that it is unlikely we will see harmonization of the QSR with ISO 13485 in 2023.

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CDER’s FY 2021 Report on the State of Pharmaceutical Quality (Part 1)

FDA Law Blog

Number of Manufacturing Sites and Registered Products. The report states that for fiscal year 2021, there were 4,451 CDER drug manufacturing sites, which is a 3% increase over fiscal year 2018, the only comparison year provided. For fiscal year 2021, CDER oversaw 12,428 ANDAs, 3,537 NDAs and 315 BLAs. Import Alerts and Recalls.

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FDA Proposes to Harmonize the Quality System Regulation with ISO 13485

FDA Law Blog

Part 820, with a newly named Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR). The QMSR omits many of the specific QSR requirements that currently appear in the regulations, and instead incorporates by reference an international standard for medical device quality management systems.

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(Slightly More) Options for cGMP for Combination Products: FDA Describes Alternative or Streamlined Mechanisms for Compliance

FDA Law Blog

Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Exper — FDA recently published Alternative or Streamlined Mechanisms for Complying with the Current Good Manufacturing Practice Requirements for Combination Products; List under the 21st Century Cures Act in the Federal Register (FR Notice). By way of background, 21 C.F.R. § 21 C.F.R. §

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FDA’s Third Party Review Program is Ready for the Next Pandemic, not the LDT Final Rule

FDA Law Blog

A similar support program, instead of or in combination with third party review, could be instrumental in assisting manufacturers of LDTs to validate tests and de-risk regulatory authorizations. We noted in last years post that in Fiscal Years 2018 2022 , fewer than 100 510(k)s went through the Third Party Review Program annually.

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New Draft Guidance Provides Detailed (and Burdensome) Recommendations for Chemical Assessments to Support Medical Device Biocompatibility

FDA Law Blog

Chemical characterization can also be useful in evaluating a change to the materials or manufacturing of a device. FDA suggests that test articles represent the worst-case manufacturing process, and provide the examples that the device undergoes the greatest number of sterilization and/or reprocessing cycles.

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A Final LDT Rule in April!? Will FDA be prepared?

FDA Law Blog

This is based on FDA’s reported 2018 review of the CLIA database. [2] This is 50% greater than the 2018 numbers relied upon by FDA in its estimates. [3] Unless FDA provides timely responses to pre-submissions, laboratories (and current IVD manufacturers) will not be able to submit applications that address FDA’s expectations.

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