FDA warning letter · Medical Devices

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Issued · Posted by FDA

Selected passages from the FDA letter

Quoted FDA text from the published dataset. These selected excerpts are not the complete letter.

Passage 1

Failure to establish and maintain procedures for validating the device design to ensure that devices conform to defined user needs and intended uses and include testing of production units under actual or simulated use conditions, and include risk analysis where appropriate, as required by, 21 CFR 820.30(g). Specifically,

Passage 2

Failure to establish and maintain procedures for receiving, reviewing, and evaluating complaints by a formally designated unit, as required by 21 CFR 820.198(a). For example:

Passage 3

Failure to submit a report to 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 your firm markets may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury, as required by 21 CFR 803.50(a)(1). For example:

Citations in the original letter

As cited in this historical letter, not a statement of current regulatory requirements.

  • 21 CFR 803.3(w)
  • 21 CFR 803.50(a)(1)
  • 21 CFR 803
  • 21 CFR 807.81(b)
  • 21 CFR 820.30(g)
  • 21 CFR 820.198(a)
  • 21 CFR 820.100(a)