Conventional Foley Catheters – Performance Criteria for Safety and Performance Based Pathway: Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff

Issue Date: August 14, 2020
Issued by: Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Topic(s): Premarket, 510(k), Gastroenterology-Urology
Status: Final

Conventional Foley Catheters – Performance Criteria for Safety and Performance Based Pathway: Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff

This final guidance provides performance criteria for conventional Foley catheters in support of the Safety and Performance Based Pathway. Under this framework, submitters planning to submit a 510(k) using the Safety and Performance Based Pathway for Foley catheters will have the option to use the performance criteria proposed in this draft guidance to support substantial equivalence, rather than a direct comparison of performance of the subject device to that of a predicate device.

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