FDA on June 28 unveiled a package of initiatives designed to get the agency’s potentially revolutionary quality metrics initiative moving forward again.
FDA Resumes Quality Metrics Effort With Feedback And Site Visit Initiatives
FDA’s quality metrics initiative emerges from hibernation with a two-part feedback program and a site visit program. The agency plans to collect feedback on quality metrics in certain meetings conducted during the application process – and in a pilot program. Agency staff also plan to visit firms to learn how they use quality metrics.

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