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FDA Moves UDI Initiative Further Down the Production Line

The agency gets this one right

Michael Causey
Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:26
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We, and others, like to take the FDA to task for missing deadlines or behaving in ways that are sometimes difficult to fathom. So it’s only fair to give equal space to something when they seem to get it right. Take the agency’s Unique Device Identification System (UDI).

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Readers of this column might have different experiences with it—and we’d like to hear about them, good or bad—but you’ve got to tip your hat to the FDA because they’re trying to get this one right.

Last month, the FDA launched the Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID), a searchable website containing a listing of all UDIs. From industry as well as the agency, expectations are high for this system, which was implemented to simplify the identification of many regulated medical devices used by patients in the United States.

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