Cette société américaine de dispositifs médicaux a reçu un avertissement sérieux sur ses pratiques en matière de validation informatique : 1. Failure to establish and maintain procedures for validating the device design, including risk analysis where appropriate, as required by 21 CFR 820.30(g). For example: a) Your procedure number OP-11, Rev. E, Design Control, and procedure number OP-43, Software Quality Assurance Procedure, followed when a design contains software, do not include or refer to a process for conducting software validation . Specifically, section 5.1 of the procedure OP-43, Software Quality Assurance Procedure, states that validation should be conducted in light of the “level of concern” for software used in infusion pumps or accessory devices. However, the procedure does not provide, or refer to, a process for determining “level of concern” and establishing validation plans that are appropriate to the identified level of concern. Your responses dated M