On February 22, 2023, the Regulations Amending the Medical Devices Regulations (Interim Order No. 3 Respecting the Importation and Sale of Medical Devices for Use in Relation to COVID-19) (the COVID-19 Medical Devices Regulations) came into force and created a permanent regulatory framework under Part 1.1 of the MDR for COVID-19 medical devices. Health Canada has expanded the scope of Part 1.1 f..

What is NOM (Norma Oficial Mexicana)? Mexico regulatory standards that manufacturers meet to protect the safety of medical device, IVD, and pharmaceutical users. Mexico COFEPRIS invalidated the standard NOM-137-SSA1-2008 on medical device labeling published in December 2008, and announced an updated new NOM for medical device labeling, NOM-137-SSA1-2024, on April 23, 2024. Updated NOM-137-SSA1-2..

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety published ｢Guidelines for evaluating physical and chemical properties of non-absorbable polymer materials for biological safety evaluation of medical devices｣ on April 08, 2024 to help prepare biological evaluation data for medical devices by explaining the requirements, evaluation principles, and processes of data on physical and chemical characteristics ana..

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a draft guidance document on March 13, 2024, of Select Updates for the Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance: Section 524B of the FD&C Act. FDA intends to incorporate the updates proposed in this draft guidance into the Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance as one final guidance document after obtaining and considering public comment on these proposed select..

The CMDE under the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China has issued guidelines for registration and review of high-frequency beauty devices (No. 8[2023]). Manufacturers of radio frequency beauty devices classified as Class III will have to comply with the new technical review guidelines from April 1, 2024. The High Frequency beauty device Registration and Review Guidelines (No..

On February 17, 2023, the NMPA in China made an announcement on the implementation of the 3rd Unique Device Identification (UDI) of medical devices. Depending on the degree of risk and regulatory needs, some Class2 medical devices, such as disposable products with high clinical demand, products selected for mass supply, and medical beauty-related products, are determined to be in the third batch..

FDA published a Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR) final rule on February 2, 2024 to revise the current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements for medical devices in the Quality System (QS) Regulation (21 CFR Part 820). FDA amends Part 820 to incorporate the QMS requirements of ISO13485 as references. Replacing the Quality System(QS) with the Quality Management System Regulatio..

With the implementation of the revised Medical Device Management Enforcement Decree (98/2021/ND-CP) in 2021, Vietnam (MoH) extended the registration expiration date for Class C and D medical devices by one year to December 31, 2022, and made distribution registration mandatory from 2022. However, during that period, companies experienced a lot of inconvenience and confusion as the Ministry of He..

The Hong Kong Medical Device Division (MDD) has announced that the “Essential Principles of Medical Device Safety and Performance” (Technical Reference: TR-004) will be available for use in the Medical Device Administrative Control System (MDACS) from 1 January 2024. Hong Kong's existing reference countries were Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States, but as the info..

MDSAP is a certification system created by five regular member countries, the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Brazil, for the purpose of joint review according to international standards for medical device safety and quality control. From December 19, 2023, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revised part of the Medical Device Manufacturing and Quality Control Standards to improve ..