• 2024-04-03 09:01:31

Enforced from January 5, 2025, the official gazetting of the 'Good Criteria and Practice for Importing and Selling of Medical Devices 2023', marks a significant milestone in Thailand's medical device regulations.

• 2023-10-20 06:31:20

Recently, TFDA has announced an amendment to the classifications of medical devices. The scopes and identifications of several medical device classifications have been updated to provide more specific and clearer instructions. Among these, the risk level of 3 classifications has been re-determined and there are 11 new additional classifications.

• 2023-08-23 06:20:33

The Australian government has extended medical device reform deadlines due to the EU MDR transition, enabling manufacturers to obtain EU MDR certificates and sponsors to engage with the TGA under the new regulations until July 1, 2029. This adjustment aligns with the EU MDR transition's conclusion on December 31, 2028.

• 2023-05-24 07:15:51

The applicable expedited route from the Thai FDA supplies much-needed clarity for manufacturers, allowing them to better forecast the potential impact on timelines and costs for certain products. The selection of expedited routes allows applicants to comply according to their medical device approval status.

• 2023-03-27 08:52:43

PFDA presented a draft of the updated guidelines on obtaining a special permit for restricted use of unregistered drug and medical device products. In addition to previous patient conditions laid out by previous regulations, this new guidance widens the product scope to vaccines and the diseases to include those that may result in the patient's permanent disability.

• 2023-03-27 08:27:31

Thai FDA announces 'Thailand FDA - WHO Collaborative Registration Procedure (CRP) for in vitro diagnostics (IVDs)', an expedited medical device registration program aimed at reducing the time required for manufacturers and importers to register their products. The program officially commenced on December 28, 2022, onward.

• 2023-02-23 01:23:58

Thai FDA has published a guidance, which aims to assist the justification status of Software as Medical Device (SaMD) as well as its risk classification for Thai FDA registration.

• 2023-01-19 01:28:15

As we are easing into the first quarter of 2023, we are thus simultaneously entering into the last phase of Thai FDA grace period regarding the transition to the risk-classification approach. Thus, Thai FDA has published a summary of the medical device categories on their official website instructing medical device registration via Full CSDT submission and Partial 2 Submission route.

• 2022-12-27 05:30:57

To promote an effective reviewing procedure, Thai FDA granted that therapeutic medical devices shall be classified and registered under Listing (Class 1 medical device), in effect from 3rd December 2022 onward.

• 2022-11-29 03:04:45

As based on Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare notice from September 20, 2022 the Essential Principles for certain Class II medical devices are amended.