The FDA report, Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality, calls for international partnerships among regulators, a worldwide data information system for regulation and the allocation of agency resources based on risk.
Already, the FDA’s PREDICT system uses data on the entire production cycle of a product to target risks before they enter the country, allowing investigators to focus on the highest-risk devices.
Read an executive summary of the FDA report on medical devices.
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