CAPA - What does the FDA expect from Medical Devices Manufacturers?
Deficiencies with regard to CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) are regularly Top 1 in FDA's Warning Letter statistics (see our GMP News from 23 September 2014). The FDA has just recently published presentations in form of webinars on the following topics:
- Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Program
- 510(k) Program
- Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
- Electronic Medical Device Reporting (eMDR)
The 31 slides on CAPA are particularly interesting and aim to:
- Explain the objective of CAPA
- Differentiate individual terms like Correction, Corrective Action, Preventive Action
- Clarify the requirements from the Quality System Regulations 21 CFR 820 (GMP for Medical Devices)
- Present diverse "Tools"
and
- Show examples and "Best Practices"
There is even the possibility to have a look at the webinar's slides "Corrective and Preventive Action Basics".