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Since 1990, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required that medical device manufacturers that want to market certain categories of medical devices in the USA follow Design Control requirements (21 CFR 820.30).
A design history file is a compilation of documentation that describes the design history of a finished medical device.The design history file, or DHF, is part of regulation introduced in 1990 when the U.S. Congress passed the Safe Medical Devices Act, which established new standards for medical devices that can cause or contribute to the death, serious illness, or injury of a patient.
The rule is promulgated at 21 CFR 820. [ 5 ] According to current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), medical device manufacturers have the responsibility to use good judgment when developing their quality system and apply those sections of the FDA Quality System (QS) Regulation that are applicable to their specific products and operations, in ...
For example, in the US, the Food and Drug Administration have regulations in Part 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations. [54] Nash et al. have published a book which provides a comprehensive coverage on the various validation topics of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. [ 55 ]
Subpart B includes quality system requirements, an important component of which are design controls (21 CFR 820.30). To meet the demands of these industry regulation standards, a growing number of medical device distributors are putting the complaint management process at the forefront of their quality management practices. This approach ...
Typical provisions related to software validation are included in the medical device regulations at 21 CFR 820 (et seq.) [8] and Title 21 CFR Part 11. [9] Essentially, the requirements are that the software has been designed and implemented to be suitable for its intended purposes.
The US Food and Drug Administration requires that developers of medical device follow a system of design controls.A key part of this system is design review, defined in 21CFR820.3 section (h) as "a documented, comprehensive, systematic examination of the design to evaluate the adequacy of the design requirements, to evaluate the capability of the design to meet these requirements, and to ...
Process validation is the analysis of data gathered throughout the design and manufacturing of a product in order to confirm that the process can reliably output products of a determined standard. Regulatory authorities like EMA and FDA have published guidelines relating to process validation. [ 1 ]