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The answer depends on how the ISO 9001 certification is structured within the big business.
If the big business is ISO 9001 certified at an organizational level, it keeps certification.
If the certification was contract-specific, the certification may no longer apply to that contract. The small business would need to become ISO 9001 certified if required for the contract.
Yes, you are right when you say that temperature mapping is not mandatory or required in ISO 13485. However, what is required in point 7.5.11 is that the manufacturer must protect the product from alteration, contamination, or damage when exposed to expected conditions during processing, storage, handling, and distribution. If your warehouse is racked and tall or divided (to have more rooms), then temperature mapping is needed to make sure that the temperature distribution is equal, that is, that the products, regardless of where they are located within the warehouse, are stored at the same temperature.
If this is not the case, and your storage is in one room, of normal height, and you can prove that the temperature distribution is equal, then you can justify that temperature mapping is not necessary.
Yes, you can limit the products covered by your QMS. It is a common practice to define the scope of a QMS to include only certain products or services. This decision is a management decision and can be based on various factors, such as the value of certification to your customers or strategic business goals. For example, you can choose to include only coffee and milk powder in the QMS scope and exclude orange juice. This allows you to focus your quality management efforts on specific areas of your business.
Please check in this Free webinar - ISO 9001:2015 Clause 4 - Context of the Organization, Interested Parties, and Scope (slide 8) an example of the flexibility with scope within ISO 9001.
According to the provided information, since it goes on the implant and therefore into the body, in my opinion classification Rule 21 is applicable - Devices composed of substances that are introduced via a body orifice or applied to the skin, but for all other cases - class IIb (similar like vaginal gels). For more details please see MDCG 2021-24 Guidance on classification of medical devices.
Yes, you can combine trials. But please pay attention to the following:
- clinical research for medical products must comply with ISO 14155:2020.
- Such clinical research must be registered with the European Medicine Agency.
- contact your notifying body and see with them that before starting the clinical research, you give them the plan of the clinical research for inspection so that they can be sure that the research plan is well set.
- study in detail the points of the MDR - from Article 61 to Article 82