HR 539 · 93th Congress · Health
National Medical Devices Standards Commission Act
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Introduced2
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.(1973-01-03)
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National Medical Devices Standards Commission Act - Creates a twenty-member National Medical Devices Standards Commission to: (1) review quality controls and manufacturing procedures of medical devices, surgical instruments, artificial organs and limbs, therapeutic instruments and devices, and other medical and hospital equipment; (2) advise on such specific manufacturing practices and minimum performance standards as may be recommended to it by the President, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, or competent private medical authorities; (3) establish methods for determining constructive minimum performance standards for the research and design, and manufacture of such medical devices; (4) establish methods for determining the medical value of devices manufactured and the therapeutic consequences thereof; and (5) recommend to the President and to Congress methods for determining constructive minimum performance standards, and feasible methods for Federal regulation. Authorizes appropriations required to carry out the provisions of this Act.…
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