Federal Register Notice: FDA’s National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee will meet 4/19, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, Gaithersburg, MD. The committee will discuss the following issues: (1) Mechanisms to reduce the regulatory and inspection burden on facilities; (2) Whether mammographic images obtained from reconstructed compressed digital data (lossless or lossy data compression) can be used for primary interpretation or storage; (3) Whether images obtained from digitized film-screen mammograms can be used for primary interpretation or storage; and (4) Revisions to Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) compliance guidance. The committee will also be updated on recently approved alternative standards, full field digital mammography accreditation and certification, the inspection demonstration program, the status of MQSA reauthorization, and the new post inspection enforcement strategy. Contact Charles Finder, (301) 594-3332. To view this notice, click here.
