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Patient Safety Coalition urges FDA to create "Unique Device Identification" to speed, track recalls of defective medical devices
WASHINGTON—The Advancing Patient Safety Coalition, whose members include the Alpha-1 Foundation, is urging the Food and Drug Administration to act to create a national unique device identification (UDI) system for medical devices.
This would speed recalls and tracking of defective medical devices, the Coalition says. The Coalition letter points out that the FDA has been working on this issue for more than five years, and urges swift action.
