A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the process for inspections of device establishments for granting export certifications.
- Last Action
- 2/15/2017
Actions
- 2017-02-15Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2017-02-15Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-02-15 (00)
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise provisions regarding Food and Drug Administration (FDA): (1) inspections of establishments that manufacture or process medical devices, and (2) certification of medical devices for export.
The biannual inspection schedule for medical device establishments handling higher risk devices is replaced with a risk-based schedule. In establishing the risk-based schedule, the FDA must consider an establishment's participation in international medical device audit programs.
The FDA must adopt a uniform process and uniform standards for inspections of domestic and foreign medical device establishments.
Upon request, the FDA must provide to the person in charge of a medical device establishment feedback regarding the person's proposals to address issues identified during an inspection.
The FDA must provide the basis for denying requests for certification of products for export as meeting FDA requirements for domestic products. A person denied such a certification may request supervisory review of that decision.
Products from a medical device establishment that an inspector found to be contaminated or insanitary may be certified for export if the person in charge of the establishment has agreed to a plan to correct the issues identified during the inspection.Cosponsors (3)
- Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Todd Young (R-IN)
- Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Manufacturing
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