As simple as it may seem, counting can be a difficult human endeavor! You need only recall Monty Python’s Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch skit to cement that fact! Over the years we’ve commented (e.g., here) on the difficulty with counting to 60. That’s the magic …
FDA has historically classified accessories in one of two ways: (1) according to the parent device’s classification (either by express inclusion in the classification regulation or by clearance or approval of an accessory under the parent device’s classification regulation); or (2) by establishment of a separate …
On April 14, 2017, Congress released a discussion draft of a bill to reauthorize the FDA’s various user fee programs, commonly referred to as “the UFAs.” The FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) would renew the Agency’s authority to collect user fees in Fiscal Years 2018 through …
FDA generated a great deal of the buzz a few weeks ago when it proposed exempting more than 1,000 Class II devices from the 510(k) requirements (see our earlier post here). Given the excitement, we thought it might be worth discussing what devices are no …
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in United Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar, we have seen a narrowing of situations in which courts will find liability under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). A district court in Pennsylvania provided yet another example of this …
Without pomp or circumstance, Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) introduced a bill on March 27, 2017, that would expand the communications pharmaceutical and medical device companies can have with doctors about their products. The bill, titled the Medical Product Communications Act of 2017, seeks to clarify …
Not long ago, we recommended that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) begin a new rulemaking to update the intended use regulation. We promised a blog post to get the ball rolling with suggestions for improvement. The time has arrived. In the discussion below, the first …
One and a half years since FDA first proposed changes, two months since the final rule was published, one month after objections threatening an Administrative Procedure Act challenge, and one day before the rules would have taken effect, FDA announced on Monday that it would …
On March 14, in the Federal Register, FDA published a list of Class II devices that the agency proposes exempting from the 510(k) requirements. A copy of the Federal Register notice can be found here. As you may recall from our earlier post, Section 3054 …
We recently blogged about whether FDA’s recent amendment to the intended use regulation could be considered essentially null and void based upon a failure to comply with the Congressional Review Act. Apparently, this suggestion caused quite a stir and even excitement in some quarters, as it …
A few weeks ago, we blogged about FDA’s final rule amending the “intended use” regulation. The final rule looks very different than the proposed rule, and adopts a new “totality of the evidence” standard that does not resolve the old problems with the regulation but …
In January 2017, FDA issued two Draft Guidance documents concerning communications made by medical device manufacturers about information not expressly contained within a product’s labeling: Medical Product Communications That Are Consistent With the FDA-Required Labeling – Questions and Answers: Guidance for Industry [Draft] (January 2017), hereinafter …
Ten years ago, Congress commanded FDA to ease the burden of Medical Device Reporting (MDR) for most class I and class II devices. Four years ago, we blogged about it here. FDA still has not gotten it done. Specifically, Section 227 of the Food and Drug …
In 2015, FDA proposed revising the so-called intended use regulation (21 CFR 201.128; id. § 801.4) to remove the famous “knowledge” sentence: “But if a manufacturer knows, or has knowledge of facts that would give him notice, that a [drug or device] introduced into interstate commerce …
In late November, FDA announced that it would not be finalizing the 2014 draft LDT Guidance. The Agency had, however, done a significant amount of work regarding the draft guidance and evaluating the regulatory framework for lab tests. In an effort to document the work …
