The Case for Quality Collaborative Community – or CfQcc – affords stakeholders across industry a safe space where they can rally around an array of topics to advance medical device quality and safety.
The US Food and Drug Administration’s device center has formally recognized the Medical Device Innovation Consortium’s (MDIC) Case for Quality Collaborative Community (CfQcc), an initiative that affords stakeholders across industry a safe space where they can rally around an array of topics, from the mundane to the more pressing.
Cisco Vicenty, CfQcc program manager in the device center’s Office of Product Evaluation and Quality, said the expansion of the...
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16 June marked the first major new regulatory instrument in the UK’s post-Brexit transition to a standalone device regulatory system for Great Britain.
With new regulations limiting the use of plastics popping up worldwide, the medtech industry sees arguments on both sides. Some argue hasty bans of PFAS ("forever chemicals") would harm patients, while others say phthalates should be phased out to protect the public.
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