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Pre-Market Approval (PMA)

Pre-Market Approval (PMA)

The US Food and Drug Administration FDA requires Premarket Approval PMA for high-risk class III medical devices where no identifiable predicate exists. PMA regulatory requirements and dossier content is of a much greater complexity for product developers in comparison to alternative 510(k) application file (i.e. need for formal clinical study data, etc.).

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