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CPG Sec. 350.100 Packaging Technologies and Tamper-Resistant Packaging Requirements for Contact Lens Solutions and Tablets

FinalCenter for Devices and Radiological Health Office of Regulatory Affairs11/21/1988

Description

Tamper-resistant packaging requirements for contact lens solutions and tablets are located in 21 CFR 800.12.

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

2
Biological Indicator

Microbiological test system providing a defined resistance to a specified sterilization process; Guidance for premarket notification submissions of BIs; Subject of the premarket notification 510(k) submission

Medical Device

FDA intends to assess device cybersecurity based on a number of factors; demonstrate or maintain its safety and effectiveness; ensuring cybersecurity has become essential to FDA’s ability to protect the public health; Cyber-resiliency capabilities for medical devices

Stakeholders

1
Manufacturer

Entity responsible for submitting NDINs

Regulatory Context

Attributes

6
Shelf Life

Determined based on stability data; Established through stability testing; also called dating period.; Established through formal stability studies; Establishing the period during which a drug product is expected to remain within specifications; Period for drug products; The period during which a drug product is expected to remain within specifications; Duration product remains within acceptance criteria; Period during which product remains within specifications; Established for intermediates pu

Shelf-life

intended storage conditions throughout the proposed shelf-life

D-value

Time required to destroy 90 percent of the vegetative cells or spores at a given temperature

Z-value

Temperature increase required to reduce D-value.

Sterility Assurance Level

Quality parameter that must remain unchanged for the policy

Survival/Kill Window

Calculated time range to verify BI performance.

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