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Management Review Under QMSR: Why “Top Management” Now Means the CEO
QMSR brings ISO 13485's management responsibility clauses into FDA regulation. What "top management" engagement in management review now requires, and how to show executive accountability that holds up at inspection.
Sep 224 min read
Supplier and Outsourcing Controls Under QMSR: The Audit Records Exemption Is Gone
QMSR removed the exemption that long kept supplier audit records out of FDA investigators' reach. What that means for supplier and outsourcing controls under ISO 13485, and how to get supplier audit files inspection-ready.
Sep 224 min read
QMSR vs. QSR: What Actually Changed and What FDA Is Finding Five Months In
QMSR replaced the QSR on February 2, 2026, incorporating ISO 13485:2016 by reference. What actually changed for device manufacturers, what stayed the same, and what FDA investigators are finding in the first months of inspections.
Sep 224 min read
Separating CAPA Workflows Under QMSR: What Manufacturers Actually Need to Change
CAPA deficiencies remain one of FDA's most reliable predictors of enforcement. What separating corrective and preventive action workflows looks like under QMSR, and what manufacturers actually need to change in their quality systems.
Sep 224 min read
Risk Management Under QMSR: Why ISO 14971 Is Now the Center of FDA Inspections
How FDA's QMSR treats risk management through ISO 13485 and ISO 14971, the most common file weaknesses, and how to build a living risk management system.
Sep 229 min read
Design Controls Under QMSR: What Changes When 820.30 Becomes ISO 13485 Clause 7.3
A clause-by-clause comparison of QSR 820.30 and ISO 13485 clause 7.3 under FDA's QMSR, with terminology changes, inspection focus areas and a transition checklist.
Sep 228 min read
Complaint Handling and MDR Reporting Under QMSR: Building a System That Holds Up
How complaint handling works under the QMSR: ISO 13485 clause 8.2.2, 21 CFR 820.35 record content, Part 803 MDR timelines, Part 806, and reportability scenarios.
Sep 229 min read
The Supplier You've Never Audited Is Already in Your Quality System
In February 2008, hospitals across the United States began seeing something that almost never happens with heparin, a blood thinner used in millions of procedures every year: patients going into sudden, severe allergic-type reactions — hypotension, nausea, shortness of breath — within minutes of receiving it. The FDA would eventually trace the cause to a contaminant called oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, added somewhere upstream in the crude heparin supply chain in China, a
Jul 216 min read
FDA's #1 QMSR Form 483 Audit Findings, In Its Own Words: "Risk, Risk, Risk, Risk"
Five months into FDA's new Quality Management System Regulation, the agency has said out loud what's actually showing up in QMSR Form 483 findings — and it's not a paperwork problem.
Jul 153 min read
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