The FDA and Worldwide Quality System Requirements Guidebook for Medical Devices, Second Edition (Hardcover)

This new and expanded second edition maintains the organizational approach of the first and includes the requirements and guidance contained in the Quality System Regulation (QSReg), the ISO 13485:2003 standard, the ISO/TR 14969:2004 guidance document, and, as appropriate, a number of the FDA and Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) guidance documents. This second edition also addresses a number of additional topics, such as the incorporation of risk management into the medical device organization s QMS, QMS issues related to combination products, the key process interactions within a QMS, effective presentation of and advocacy for a QMS during FDA inspections and third-party assessments, and future FDA compliance and standards activities. The organization of the guidebook is based on the order of the requirements in the QSReg. For each substantive requirement section there is: A verbatim statement of the QSReg requirement. A description of the comparable (more…)