• 2021-04-26 03:09:33

Medical Device Act, the act that separates medical devices from the genre of medicines under Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, will be fully implemented on May 1st, 2021. Along with Medical Device Act, Regulations for the Inspection of the Good Distribution Practice for Medical Devices and Licensing of Distribution License will come into force on the same date.

• 2021-04-26 02:48:33

In order to ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical devices, the FDA has the Post-Approval Studies Program for 3 kinds of applications. There are Premarket Approval (PMA), Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE), and Product Development Protocol (PDP). Applicants for these categories should follow the conditions from Post-approval studies to maintain product legality.

• 2021-04-26 02:44:41

The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has established an internal tracking system for 522 postmarket surveillance studies, where each product applicant can view the status and timeline of their products when the FDA requires the 522 postmarket surveillance study.

• 2021-04-26 02:39:59

Australia Department of Health (DoH) Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has made some amendments and issued the Therapeutic Goods Amendments (2020 Measures No. 2) Act 2021, focusing on unique device identification (UDI) under Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

• 2021-04-26 02:33:36

On December 21, 2020, State Council in China announced the adoption of New Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices (Medical Devices Order. 739 of the State Council). Respectively on March 18, 2021, State Drug Administration officially issued the revised Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices, corresponding with a set of Draft Measures.

• 2021-04-26 02:29:09

Health Sciences Authority (HSA) organized a webinar concerning the ISO 13485 Certification for licensed dealers last March 2, 2021. The information regarding accreditation of certification bodies (CBs) and future ISO 13485 requirement were provided.

• 2021-04-26 02:13:50

Health Sciences Authority (HSA) published “Medical Devices Product Classification Guide” draft comments. This document aims to help the stakeholders in determining whether a product is a medical device or not.

• 2021-04-26 02:04:12

Health Sciences Authority (HSA) introduced a new self – help tool for grouping of medical devices prior to registration. This new tool will aid in the reduction of the number of applications and will in turn reduce the cost and is applicable to different product types.

• 2021-04-26 01:41:13

The Indonesian Ministry of Health announced that Approved Import Rapid Diagnostic Test of Antigen Covid-19 (RDT-Ag) which have not fulfil WHO Emergency Used Listing (EUL) recommendations, US-FDA Emergency Used Authorization (EUA) recommendations, or European Medicine Agency (EMA) recommendations and Approved Local Rapid Diagnostic Test of Antigen Covid-19 (RDT-Ag) which is not tested by Standard of National Institute of Health Research and Development of the Ministry of Health or an independent institution designated by the Ministry of Health are directed to conduct validation tests at laboratories that have been appointed by the Ministry of Health. This is stipulated on an announcement on February 15, 2021.

• 2021-04-20 03:47:45

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