Selected passages from the FDA letter
Quoted FDA text from the published dataset. These selected excerpts are not the complete letter.
Passage 1Failure to establish and implement procedures for corrective and preventive actions as required by 21 CFR 820.100(a).
Passage 2Failure to establish procedures for receiving, reviewing, and evaluating complaints by a formally designated unit as required by 21 CFR 820.198(a).
Passage 3Failure of design validation to include adequate risk analysis as required by 21 CFR 820.30(g).
Passage 4Failure to submit a report to the FDA no later than 30 calendar days after the day that your firm received or otherwise became aware of information, from any source, that reasonably suggests that a device that it markets has malfunctioned and this device or a similar device that your firm markets would be likely to cause or contribute to a death or serious injury, if the malfunction were to recur, as required by 21 CFR 803.50(a)(2). For example:
Passage 5Failure to submit a Report of Correction or Removal, initiated to remedy a violation which may present a risk to health, within 10 working days of initiating such correction or removal, as required by 21 CFR § 806.10. For example:
Citations in the original letter
As cited in this historical letter, not a statement of current regulatory requirements.
- 21 CFR 803.50(a)(2)
- 21 CFR 803
- 21 CFR 806.10
- 21 CFR 806
- 21 CFR 820.100(a)
- 21 CFR 820.198(a)
- 21 CFR 820.30(g)