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GSPR: Heart of the EU IVDR CE Marking
IVDR GSPR like any device must meet two important parameters, Safety, and Performance before considered to be acceptable for use. It means that the device should achieve its intended purpose as stated by the manufacturer (performance) with an acceptable level of side effects (safety). Regulators from different parts of the world will investigate these parameters for any device during the approval process.
Importance of IVDR GSPR
On 5th April 2017, the European Commission published the new EU MDR and EU IVDR, by repealing the Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EEC, Active Implantable Medical Devices Directive 90/385/EEC and In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Directive 98/79/EC.
These new regulations include 20 general safety and performance requirements (IVDR GSPR) for in vitro diagnostic devices, compared to the 13 essential requirements in IVDD, in Annex I.
To ensure the safety and performance of devices, the manufacturer should demonstrate conformity with the general safety and performance requirements, laid down in these regulations and other legal requirements related to quality and risk management.
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Important Sections of IVDR GSPR
As per Annex I, EU IVDR 2017/746, the following chapters mentioned as GSPR for IVDs,
- Chapter 1 – General Requirements
- Chapter II – Requirements regarding design and manufacture
- Chapter III – Requirements regarding the information supplied with the device
Chapter I - General Requirments.
⇒ Safety and Performance
⇒ Benefit-Risk ratio
⇒ Risk Control Measures
⇒ Reducing risks related to use error
⇒ Effects on the device’s lifetime
⇒ Device Packaging
⇒ Risk mitigation measures during normal use
In this chapter, additional clauses are added related to risk management compared to IVDD, such as the risk control measures during the design and manufacturing stages, risk mitigation measures for the foreseeable risks or any other undesirable effects.
Chapter II – Requirements Regarding Performance, Design and Manufacture:
⇒ Performance characteristics
⇒ Chemical, physical and biological properties
⇒ Infection and microbial contamination
⇒ Devices incorporating materials of biological origin
⇒ Construction of devices and interaction with their environment
⇒ Devices with a measuring function
⇒ Protection against radiation
⇒ Electronic programmable systems
⇒ Devices connected to or equipped with an energy source
⇒ Protection against mechanical and thermal risks
⇒ Protection against the risks posed by devices intended for self-testing or near-patient testing
In this chapter, specific clauses are included for the device’s performance characteristics regarding analytical and clinical performance, safety regarding microbial and other transmissible agents related to the materials of biological origin and devices that incorporate electronic programmable systems, including software, which require information security, verification and validation.
Chapter III – Requirements Regarding Information Supplied with The Device
The clause for information supplied with the device is included in the Design and Manufacturing requirements of IVDD, however, in the IVDR, it is mentioned as a single clause in a separate chapter.
⇒ Label and instructions for use
⇒ General requirements regarding the information supplied by the manufacturer
⇒ Information on the label
⇒ Information on the packaging which maintains the sterile condition of a device (‘sterile packaging’)
⇒ Information in the instructions for use
This chapter is separately mentioned in IVDR by mentioning specific requirements that are to be considered about the information supplied to the users with the device.
IVDR GSPR and Technical Documentation
As per Annex II, EU 2017/746, the IVDR GSPR is considered a part of technical documentation and it should have cross-references to technical documentation, about the objective evidence that demonstrates the conformity of a device to the IVDR.
The demonstration of conformity includes the following against each requirement in Annex I,
- Justification, validation and verification of the solutions adopted
- Explanations, if it is not applied to device
- methods used to demonstrate conformity
- The harmonized standards, Common Specifications or other solutions applied
- The quality management system should provide the evidence to support relevant GSPR clauses,
- Verification and validation reports.
It is important to note, that the EU IVDR classified the in vitro diagnostic devices into four classes, Class A, Class B, Class C and Class D, by considering the intended purpose of the devices and their inherent risks and abandons the classification as per Annex II of IVDD. As per this, most of the devices that are presently self-certified IVDs need to be reviewed by notified bodies as per the IVDR, based on their risk classification, to obtain the CE Marking.
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