FDA Bug in the CDRH Databases detected by mdi’s Senior Official – results in an “FDA Letter of Appreciation”
Background The FDA Total Product Life Cycle (TPLC) database combines data from various CDRH databases (data sources) to present an integrated record of premarket and postmarketed activity for medical devices. A critical bug in the FDA CDRH TPLC database prevented the names of some 510K companies from being displayed appropriately. Apparently the FDA IT team