FDA Sends Record-Low Warning Letters To Device-Makers In 2017 As Agency Takes More Personalized Compliance, Enforcement Tack

Medical device firms were issued 35 quality-related warning letters by US FDA last calendar year – the lowest number recorded since the agency's Quality System Regulation came into force in 1996. Officials in FDA's device center stressed in an interview with Medtech Insight that there's no specific reason why so few letters were mailed to companies in 2017, although they said the agency's ongoing compliance and enforcement outreach to device-makers might have played a role in last year's anemic count. Also: Might FDA apply "least burdensome" concepts to its warning letter and close-out processes?

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US FDA's ongoing compliance and enforcement outreach to industry – including holding regulatory meetings with and/or sending untitled letters to troublesome manufacturers – appears to be a contributing factor for why the agency sent an historically low number of quality-related warning letters to device-makers last year.

But officials in FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health stressed in an interview with Medtech Insight that there's no specific reason that a mere 35 warning letters were issued...

The agency's tabulation of 35 warning letters last calendar year – the lowest number recorded since the Quality System Regulation came into force in 1996 – tracks closely with its...

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