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Following the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration’s recent news that Australia, Brazil, Canada and the US will launch a pilot for the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) for medical devices in January 2014, The US Food and Drug Administration has provided additional information on its planned participation in the pilot.
During the MDSAP pilot, the FDA will accept MDSAP audit reports as substitutes for the agency’s own routine21 CFR Part 820 quality system inspections. Other participating regulators will treat MDSAP reports as follows: