Medical device regulation in Asia has gained more importance than ever. Governments and regulatory bodies across the region have put in place new regulatory systems or refined the existing ones. A registered product requires a lot of technical documentation to prove its efficacy, safety, and quality. A smooth and successful registration process demands soft skills for dealing with various key stakeholders in the government, testing centers, and hospitals and among doctors. Handbook of Medical Device Regulatory Affairs in Asia covers medical device regulatory systems in different countries, ISO standards for medical devices, clinical trial and regulatory requirements, and documentation for application. Government bodies, the medical device industry, and academics and students will find this book immensely useful in understanding the global regulatory environment and in their research and development projects.

Medical device regulation in Asia has gained more importance than ever. Governments and regulatory bodies across the region have put in place new regulatory systems or refined the existing ones. A registered product requires a lot of technical documentation to prove its efficacy, safety, and quality. A smooth and successful registration process demands soft skills for dealing with various key stakeholders in the government, testing centers, and hospitals and among doctors. This handbook covers medical device regulatory systems in different countries, ISO standards for medical devices, clinical trial and regulatory requirements, and documentation for application. It is the first to cover the medical device regulatory affairs in Asia. Each chapter provides substantial background materials relevant to the particular area to have a better understanding of regulatory affairs.

This handbook covers medical device regulatory systems in different countries, ISO standards for medical devices, clinical trial and regulatory requirements, and documentation for application. It is the first to cover the medical device regulatory affairs in Asia. Experts from influential international regulatory bodies, including the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, Saudi Food and Drug Authority, Korea Testing Laboratory, Taiwan FDA, World Health Organization, Asian Harmonization Working Party, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, and British Standards Institution, have contributed to the book. Government bodies, the medical device industry, academics, students, and general readers will find the book immensely useful for understanding the global regulatory environment and in their research and development projects.

In recent years, even though a medical device industry has been grown rapidly as a next generation global industry, most of markets are dominated by some of major countries. A medical device is distinct from general goods; it requires not only ordinary medical engineering R&D knowledge, but also it involves with each phases of specific market knowledge, experience, and expertise from development to commercialization according to complicated regulatory affairs. Moreover, since the purpose of manufactured medical device is usually not only for domestic market but for overseas expansion, expertise of global medical device industry knowledge are needed, such as each country’s medical device law, data of medical device usage and etc… The book provides comprehensive, yet practical knowledge of product planning, research, development, manufacturing, certification and approval, and distribution of medical device in order to enable readers to conduction of business easily through general R&D education as well as essential subject, medical device approval and certification system. The main purpose of book is to foster practical medical device experts through understanding of medical device approval and certification system of East Asia including Korea, Japan, and China. Since the author has had an experienced working in Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), especially in medical device certification department as well as an educator in Universities for a long time, the author contains practical-knowledge-oriented information such as problems and corresponding strategies of each country in an aspect of regulatory affairs based on 『global certification and approval for medical device』, which are distinct from a regular textbook: engineering-education-oriented information for medical device manufacturing. This book describes information of regulatory affairs easily for various class of readers: from a undergraduate and graduate student who are interested in medical device industry to personnel who are performing medical device regulation related work. The contained information is based on public announced material from each country’s regulatory authority. However, the contained information may change in the future due to characteristics of regulatory affairs. Therefore, the author will continuously publish revised edition and respectfully accept requests for revision and improvement. 2016. December Gyu Ha Ryu, ph.D

This comprehensive resource features in-depth discussions of important guidelines and regulations needed to understand and properly meet medical device code-related requirements. Focusing on the practical application of the regulations, the Medical Device Guidelines and Regulations Handbook delivers clear explanations, real-world examples, and annotation on the applicable provisions that will allow you to safely and confidently choose materials and processes for medical device development, testing, and manufacturing. A critical resource for researchers and professionals in the medical device field; Thoroughly covers ISO 10993, ISO 22442, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, ISO 21534, REACH, RoHS, CLP, EU MDR; Presents simplified guidelines and regulation points.

Reference text on validation processes for manufacturing medical devices.