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Using Design Controls to Undermine Medical Device Development – Part 2

Nobody sets out to write design control procedures that undermine product development but unfortunately that’s the situation I’ve observed at many medical device companies. In this blog post I continue the list of ways that your quality system can undermine your product teams (part 2 of 2)

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Using Design Controls to Undermine Medical Device Development – Part 1

Nobody sets out to write design control procedures that undermine product development but unfortunately that’s the situation I’ve observed at many medical device companies. In this blog post I describe some common ways that your quality system can undermine your product teams (part 1 of 2).

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What Are Medical Device Design Controls?

Medical device design controls are the regulations that govern the development of medical devices. The FDA established design controls in 1997 because they found that manufacturing controls alone were not sufficient. The FDA recognized that many patient injuries and deaths were the result of medical devices with fundamental design flaws (i.e. no matter how carefully

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