US Congress Senate Bill 404 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 15 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the process for inspections of device establishments for granting export certifications. This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise provisions regarding Food and Drug Administration (FDA): (1) inspections of establishments that manufacture or process medical devices, and (2) certification of medical devices for export. The biannual inspection schedule for medical device establishments handling higher risk devices is replaced with a risk-based schedule. In establishing the risk-based schedule, the FDA must consider an establishment's participation in international medical device audit programs. The FDA must adopt a uniform process and uniform standards for inspections of domestic and foreign medical device establishments. Upon request, the FDA must provide to the person in charge of a medical device establishment feedback regarding the person's proposals to address issues identified during an inspection. The FDA must provide the basis for denying requests for certification of products for export as meeting FDA requirements for domestic products. A person denied such a certification may request supervisory review of that decision. Products from a medical device establishment that an inspector found to be contaminated or insanitary may be certified for export if the person in charge of the establishment has agreed to a plan to correct the issues identified during the inspection.

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the process for inspections of device establishments for granting export certifications.

Sen. Johnny Isakson [R-GA]

Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]

Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]

Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-15	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB1736 (Same As) 2017-03-31 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/404/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s404/BILLS-115s404is.pdf