The US regulations for design controls have requirements for design and development planning.  In fact, a design and development plan is an indication that a manufacturer has “exited” research phase activities and entered the development phase, and thus, design controls should be in place.  The regulation, 21 CFR 820.30(b), specifically states: Design and development planning....Read More

A fundamental requirement for any controlled process is to have the documentation associated with the process to be “controlled.”  What do we mean by controlled?  Document control implies that one can distinguish one revision of a document from another revision.  It also implies that a particular revision is retrievable and unblemished – that is, five...Read More

This content is only available to Standards Navigator subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. Recent standards and regulatory activity overview Medical device software Following the failure of the DIS of 62304 to be approved, the IEC 62304 working group requested input from the ISO and IEC member countries. There was not a consensus...Read More

Click here to view a summary of my highlights and rationale, along with some practical implementation tips for the new ISO 13485:2016:  SoftwareCPR-ISO13485 revision March 2016 highlights Some of the revisions add items included in FDA’s 21 CFR 820 Quality System Regulation such as Design Transfer, Validation of automation of quality system activities, detailed records, and...Read More

This content is only available to our Standards Navigators subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. Read the Swedish formal objection to the harmonization of ISO 13485. Sweden Formal Objection ISO13485 Medical DevicesRead More

This content is only available to Standards Navigators subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The Industry response to the Swedish objection to ISO 13485 can be found at the following link:   Industryresponseto13485objection I had previously posted regarding the Swedish objection at this link:  Read More