9 Manufacturer Volunteers Needed For FDA Malfunction Reporting Pilot Program
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
As part of a Congressional mandate, the agency is developing a program that would enable it to receive device malfunction summaries and publish them publicly. However, before implementing the program it is asking for volunteers to run a pilot program to better understand what requirements it should consider.
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