FDA flags Guidewire on sterilization issues
March 10, 2010 by MassDevice staff
Salem, N.H.-based Guidewire Technologies earns a warning letter from the Food & Drug Administration for quality system violations at a manufacturing plant.
The Food & Drug Administration warned a Salem, N.H.-based maker of guidewires used in catheters that its quality systems aren't up to snuff.
Regulators made public March 10 a warning letter sent to Guidewire Technologies Inc., advising the company that they are in violation of three quality systems regulations that must be remedied.
The agency said in a Feb. 26 letter that the company is failing to test each production run to ensure the products have been sterilized and that the company's Teflon guidewire coating process has not been validated. In addition, the agency said internal quality systems haven't been audited since 2006.
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