Recently, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China jointly issued the Pilot Work Plan of System of Unique Device Identification. NMPA issued the Rules of System of Unique Device Identification, which will come into force on October 1, 2019, and the pilot work of system of the unique device identification (UDI) has been carried out nationwide. On September 10, the Beijing Municipal Drug Administration (BMDA) organized and held a training meeting for inspectors of medical device, focusing on the publicity, implementation and deployment of the pilot work of system of UDI. Wang Fuyi, the member of the Party group and Deputy Director of BMDA, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
The Medical Device Registration and Management Office of BMDA mainly introduced the policy background, basic concepts, planning contents, work arrangements, etc. of the pilot work of UDI system. In order to do a good job in the pilot work of UDI system, Deputy Director Wang emphasized that (1) it is necessary for us to attach great importance to the significance of the construction of UDI system; and (2) we shall carry out the pilot work of UDI system in accordance with the unified deployment of NMPA and comprehensive training.
About 170 inspectors of medical device from the market supervision bureaus and subordinate units of the city participated in the training.
About 170 inspectors of medical device from the market supervision bureaus and subordinate units of the city participated in the training.