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FDA's role under the guidelines is to monitor company recalls and assess the adequacy of a firm's action. After a recall is completed, FDA makes sure that the product is destroyed or suitably reconditioned and investigates why the product was defective. Generally, FDA accepts reports and other necessary recall information submitted by e-mail.
A drug recall removes a prescription or over-the-counter drug from the market. Drug recalls in the United States are made by the FDA or the creators of the drug when certain criteria are met. When a drug recall is made, the drug is removed from the market and potential legal action can be taken depending on the severity of the drug recall. [1]
The Final Rule on Unique Device Identifiers also mandates medical device manufacturers to make a submission to the FDA's Global Unique Device Identification Database. The submission to the GUDID will include the Primary Device Identifier portion of the UDI as well as associated data attributes about each model or version number of the device.
Use of the device may cause serious injury, including blood loss, artery tears, unstable blood pressure, prevention of blood flow to the heart, or death, according to the FDA.
The recall applies to Life2000 ventilators with the product code MS01-0118 that have the attached battery charger dongle, and were distributed in the U.S. from Aug. 21, 2023 to April 2, 2024 ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall, the agency's most serious, for a Medtronic device used to temporarily drain spinal fluid from patients after surgery for a ...
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.
The Dutch medical devices maker started the process on March 29 and has recalled 73,000 devices in the United Sates. Philips was recalling the ventilators after detecting contaminants such as dust ...