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The ASEAN Medical Device Directive (AMDD) has been adopted by several southeast Asian countries. The nations are at varying stages of adopting and implementing the Directive. The AMDD classification is risk-based and defines four levels: A - Low Risk, B - Low to Moderate Risk, C - Moderate – High Risk, and D - High Risk. [28]
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government. [4] As part of the Department of Health and Aged Care, the TGA regulates the safety, quality, efficacy and advertising in Australia of therapeutic goods (which comprise medicines, medical devices, biologicals and certain other therapeutic goods).
In 1970, the study committee recommended a classification for medical devices based on comparative risk. [5] In 1976, the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device injured at least 900,000 women in the United States, [ 6 ] which aided the emphasis for regulatory oversight and therapeutic requirements provided by the U.S. legislation P.L. 94-295.
Additionally, theriac became a commercial good traded throughout Europe based on the works of Greek and Roman physicians. [ 2 ] The resulting proliferation of various recipes needed to be curtailed in order to ensure that people were not passing off fake antidotes, which led to the development of government involvement and regulation.
The MDA established a risk-based framework for the classification of medical devices and a regulatory pathway for medical devices to get to the market, created a regulatory pathway for medical device clinical trials, and established several post-market requirements including manufacturer registration and device listing with the FDA, good ...
Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) is a system of internationally agreed generic descriptors used to identify all medical device products. This nomenclature is a naming system for products which include those used for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease or injury in humans.
Medical Devices regulations cover all the topics related to the laws, standards or submissions process, with which compliance is required by manifold national and international bodies to commercialize a medical device
ISO 14971 Medical devices — Application of risk management to medical devices is a voluntary consensus standard, [1] published by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for the first time in 1998, and specifies terminology, principles, and a process for risk management of medical devices.