Note: This post is written by Jake O'Donnell, Senior FDA Compliance Principal at R&Q. Jake has more than 20 years of experience working for the FDA. Please join us for a free one-hour webinar on MDSAP, March 28th.
Medical device firms, are you looking forward to your next FDA inspection? I have conducted around 400 of them, and I am still trying to think of an instance when the firm was happy to see me. I never took it personally. FDA inspections can be stressful, not to mention they are very expensive and time consuming to support. Furthermore, FDA inspections are often followed by an unpleasant period of uncertainty regarding outcomes and adequacy of responses.
