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The Final Rule implements Section 608 of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) requiring FDA to use administrative orders to announce or to change the classification of devices, instead of taking action by regulation.  Where feasible, FDA is also amending its regulations to authorize the use of administrative orders in other FDA reclassification proceedings and to update and to clarify its Part 860 regulations.  FDA expects this rulemaking to be in part a deregulatory action under Executive Order 13771 because two FDA forms (FDA 3427 and FDA 3429) would be eliminated and our existing procedures would be streamlined by shifting to the use of administrative orders instead of regulations to propose and to finalize reclassification actions in response to petitions and at FDA initiative.  There is a minimal net burden due to learning and training costs associated with the finalized changes.