FDA's UDI Marching Orders: Don't Wait For The Regulation
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The hoped-for regulation on FDA's unique device identification framework will not come out until the first part of 2011, but companies should start taking steps to implement UDI now, an agency official says.
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