FDA Looking To Streamline Sterilization Submissions Through Bundling, PCCPs

The FDA’s fourth town hall on sterilization reviewed the agency’s Master File Pilot Programs, the use of PCCPs for sterilization changes and the process for bundling multiple sterilization change 510(k)s.

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The US Food and Drug Administration is looking into streamlining the premarket review process for sterilization, which includes bundling 510(k)s that are submitted when a company changes its sterilization method.

Scott Steffen, ethylene oxide (ETO) incident lead at the Division of All Hazards Preparedness & Response in the Office of...

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