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  • 1.  ROW regulations list

    Posted 09-May-2021 10:02
    Does anyone have a list of worldwide regulations for medical products they are willing to share? I used to have a link to a good resource on this but can't seem to find it any more.  Thanks!

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 2.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 12-May-2021 10:04
    Hello,
    I think every country has the whole set of regulations these days.
    For Russia some can be found on https://roszdravnadzor.gov.ru/en, but this is really about 5-10% of necessary information. There is also site of Eurasian Economic COmmsision - information on upcoming common legislation for Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan can be found there.
    http://eec.eaeunion.org/, but it is quite inconvenient  & has information on all products, not only medical ones (so you really have to know the document you are looking for).
    There is big number of documents that are not published on those sites, and market players normally get them via local professional associations, otherwise you are very unlikely to know about their existence (before your company will be fined for not following them.)). Those "smaller" documents will be in Russian only - market's participants may translate them at their own expence.

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    Oksana Kolosova
    F. Hoffman-LaRoche
    Moscow
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  • 3.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 12-May-2021 10:09
    Thank you Oksana Kolosova!  Looking forward to hearing from others to help if anyone has a master list of global regs to consider worldwide... Seems like we could write a book on this (if anyone is interested in that type of academic pursuit...)
    Dr. Frestedt

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 4.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 13-May-2021 07:01
    Hello Joy,
    The master list will be so helpful instead of swimming through different websites and links.. it will have to be updated frequently though...
    I can support this..
    Thanks,
    Meena

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    Meena Garg
    Regulatory and QA Consultant, Vaccines
    Sanofi Pasteur
    Brampton ON
    Canada
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  • 5.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 14-May-2021 11:09
    I could gladly help with LATAM reg

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    Cristina Viruega
    Regional Regulatory Affairs Manager
    Mexico City
    Mexico
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  • 6.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 13-May-2021 13:11
    There are several services that offer very comprehensive libraries of such documents from all around the world.  They include Tarius and Cortellis for Regulatory Intelligence. Most pharmaceutical companies subscribe to one or another (or both).  They are typically enterprise-wide and I am not sure if they are available for an individual subscription.

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    Lawrence Liberti RAC
    Adjunct Research Professor
    Temple University QARA Fort Washington
    Holland PA
    United States
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  • 7.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 13-May-2021 09:36

    I'm not sure this is exactly what you're looking for, but I refer to this often

    https://clinregs.niaid.nih.gov/



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    Beth Weinberg
    Regulatory Affairs Lead
    Angion Biomedica Corporation
    Carmel IN
    United States
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  • 8.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 13-May-2021 10:30
    Thank you Beth Weinberg!

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 9.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 13-May-2021 12:06
    A great source that I often refer to is the "Regulatory Process Charts" provided by RAMS (Emergo).  The process charts provide a high-level overview illustrating device approval processes for specific markets. Maybe not specifically what you are looking for, but can definitely lead you in the right direction as you input the country and applicable regulatory information is available.  

    https://rams.emergobyul.com/layout/regulatoryprocesscharts


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    Vashone Thomas
    Senior Director of QA/RA
    Nephros, Inc.
    South Orange NJ
    United States
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  • 10.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 13-May-2021 14:58
    Thank you Vashone Thomas. Unfortunately this Emergo website is restricted to Emergo customers... I can't see the process charts you are referring to in your suggestion below... are these publicly available somewhere?

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 11.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 15-May-2021 02:08
    You can sign up for some level of free access to some of Emergo documents for free.  I did a couple years ago and still have access.

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    Leonard (Leo) Eisner, P.E.
    The "IEC 60601 Guy"
    Principal Consultant, Eisner Safety Consultants
    Phone: (503) 244-6151
    Mobile: (503) 709-8328
    Email: Leo@EisnerSafety.com
    Website: www.EisnerSafety.com
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  • 12.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 15-May-2021 10:29
    Thanks Leonard Eisher. Just two concerns from me: 1) if Emergo requires sign in for "free" access, this does not feel the same as "publicly available" to me and 2) I'm pretty sure Emergo has an agreement the user may need to accept during sign-in to protect the Emergo IP (intellectual property) from commercial use. I am really cautious about these ethical boundaries and would not want to use Emergo IP for commercial interests like the ones contemplated in this question for a list of global regulations.  Cheers, Dr. Frestedt

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 13.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 14-May-2021 01:40
    HI Joy

    I am not aware of any single link and even if it existed it would rapidly become out of date.  however you can consolidate the contact information for the individual agencies into a small number of sources, all of them harmonization bodies:

    www.imdrf.org for US, Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada, Russia, China, Singapore, S Korea
    http://www.ahwp.info/index.php/node/32  for most of Asia, mid east, and some S America and Africa.
    www.pahwp.org   for Africa
    There's also useful info at the APEC medical devices page https://www.apec.org/RHSC/RHSC-Priority-Work-Areas/Medical-Devices 

    Arthur

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    Arthur Brandwood PhD FRAPS
    Director and Principal Consultant
    Brandwood CKC
    Sydney, Australia
    Arthur.brandwood@gmail.com
    www.brandwoodckc.com
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  • 14.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 14-May-2021 08:21
    Thank you Arthur. The IMDRF seems to be more about harmonized standards and not regulations per se. I find this conversation interesting because the regulations are so hard to find and often the regulatory authorities websites do not have English translations (e.g., China, etc). Seems like FDA website is not available to other countries in their native languages either. I believe we might benefit from some globalized regulatory support even if only a list of links and reliable language translators. Seems like something the WHO or other organizations could support.  Maybe even RAPS?
    thanks again,
    Joy

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 15.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 24-Jun-2022 10:15
    The FRPath Project (www.FRPath.org) maintains an up to date listing of links to almost 135 agencies worldwide.  The service is available to academics or to authorized users whose organizations support the project via educational grants. See the Portals section of the web site.

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    Lawrence Liberti RAC
    Adjunct Research Professor, Temple University
    Holland PA
    United States
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  • 16.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 24-Jun-2022 11:03
    Excellent activity and resource. Thank you, Lawrence! I see they have 155 "agencies" when I looked in today... As Arthur mentioned the lists might need to get updated regularly and I hope this project continues for that purpose and to make our jobs easier!
    Joy

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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  • 17.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 14-May-2021 20:56
    Probably not regularly updated and not sure of its overall accuracy, but for casual hobbyists this WHO site is at least amusing.

    https://www.who.int/medical_devices/countries/en/

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    Sam Lazzara
    Medical Device Quality Consultant
    San Francisco Bay Area, California USA
    https://mdqc.blog
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  • 18.  RE: ROW regulations list

    Posted 14-May-2021 21:11
    Thank you Sam!  That's the one I remember… great to have more resources to tie together global regulations!

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    Joy Frestedt PHD, CPI, RAC, FRAPS, FACRP
    President and CEO
    Frestedt Incorporated (www.frestedt.com)
    Saint Louis Park MN
    United States
    612-219-9982
    jf@frestedt.com
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