FDA Public Workshop

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding a public workshop, "Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices Workshop."

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss factors affecting the reprocessing of reusable medical devices and FDA's plans to address the identified issues. This workshop is part of an ongoing FDA effort to address patient exposure to inadequately reprocessed reusable medical devices with the overall goal to reduce the risk of infection. The topics to be discussed are: Factors affecting reprocessing quality, device design as it relates to reprocessing reusable medical devices, reprocessing methodologies, validation methodologies, and healthcare facility best practices.

Date and Time of the public workshop will be June 8, 2011, from 8:30am to 5:30pm and June 9, 2011, from 8:30am to 5pm.

The workshop will be held in the Great Room at the FDA White Oak Conference Center, Bldg. 31, Rm. 1503, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993.