This document will assist industry particularly labelers as defined under 21 cfr 801 3 and fda staff in understanding fda s requirements for direct marking of devices for unique device.
Fda unique device identification medical devices.
A dedicated global identification protocol is needed to unambiguously identify medical devices in the healthcare supply chain.
A unique device identification udi system is intended to provide single globally harmonized positive identification of medical devices through distribution and use requiring the label of devices to bear a globally unique device identifier to be conveyed by using automatic identification and data capture and if applicable its human.
The united states food and drug administration fda implemented a unique device identification udi system to assign a unique identifier to all medical devices distributed in the us.