Failure to establish and maintain procedures for validating the device design, i.e. software validation , which is required by 21 CFR 820.30(g). For example, your firm did not establish a software validation procedure or a software validation plan for software version 12.1. We acknowledge, since the release of software version 12.1 on August 27, 2008, that you have conducted a retrospective software validation for software versions 10.14-12.1; however, this was not conducted until June 8-August 20, 2010. Additionally, our inspection noted these “retrospective” testing activities lacked testing activities typically performed during a software validation, such as updated software requirements specification, a source code evaluation, and user site testing.
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