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 procedures for implementing corrective and preventive action, as required by 21 CFR § 820.100(a). Specifically, your CORRECTIVE AND PREVENTIVE PROCEDURE, Doc.ID: 410-0013-01, Revisions 12, 13, and 14, are inadequate in that:
Passage 2Failure to establish procedures for validating the device design and failure to include software validation and risk analysis, where appropriate, as required by 21 CFR § 820.30(g). Specifically, your risk analysis is inadequate in that it was not updated as required per Risk Management Procedure, 410-0009-01, Revision: 17.
Passage 3Failure to report to us the information required by § 803.52 in accordance with the requirements of § 803.12(a), no later than 30 calendar days after the day that you receive or otherwise become aware of information, from any source, that reasonably suggests that a device that you market has malfunctioned and this device or a similar device that you market 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).
Passage 4Failure to adequately develop, maintain, and implement written MDR procedures as required by 21 CFR § 803.17. For example, during the inspection, your firm presented the following documents:
Passage 5Failure to submit a correction or removal initiated to reduce a risk to health posed by the device and required to be reported to the FDA by 21 CFR § 806.10(a), was not reported in writing within 10-working days of initiating such correction or removal, as required by 21 CFR § 806.10(b).
Citations in the original letter
As cited in this historical letter, not a statement of current regulatory requirements.
- 21 CFR 803
- 21 CFR 803.50(a)(2)
- 21 CFR 803.17
- 21 CFR 803.17(a)(1)
- 21 CFR 803.3
- 21 CFR 803.20(c)(1)
- 21 CFR 803.50(a)
- 21 CFR 803.17(a)(2)
- 21 CFR 803.17(a)(3)
- 21 CFR 803.12(a)
- 21 CFR 803.17(b)
- 21 CFR 803.18(b)(1)(i)
- 21 CFR 806.10(b)
- 21 CFR 806.10(a)
- 21 CFR 806
- 21 CFR 820.100(a)
- 21 CFR 820.30(a)
- 21 CFR 820.30(g)
- 21 CFR 820.30(i)