This document specifies the process and requirements for the toxicological risk assessment of medical device constituents. The methods and criteria used to assess whether exposure to a constituent is without appreciable harm are also specified. The toxicological risk assessment can be part of the biological evaluation of the final product, as described in ISO 10993-1. The process described in this document applies to chemical characterization information obtained in line with ISO 10993-18. When a toxicological risk assessment of either the compositional information or analytical chemistry data (e.g. extractable data or leachable data) are required to determine whether the toxicological risks related to the constituents are negligible or tolerable. The process described in this document is not intended to apply to circumstances where the toxicological risk has been estimated by other means, such as: — constituents, excluding cohort of concern or excluded chemicals, that are present in or extracted from a medical device at an amount representative of patient exposure below a relevant, toxicologically-based reporting threshold (see applicable requirements in ISO 10993-18:2020, Annex E and ISO/TS 21726); — a new or changed medical device for which chemical or biological equivalence has been established with an existing biocompatible or clinically established medical device (see applicable requirements in ISO 10993-18:2020, Annex C). The process described in this document is also not applicable to: — medical device constituents that do not contact the body (e.g. in vitro diagnostics); — biological risks associated with physical interactions of the medical device with the body (i.e. application of mechanical forces, energy or surface morphology, etc.), provided that the chemical exposure is not changed; — active pharmaceutical ingredients of device-drug combination products or biologic components of device-biologic combination products as additional regulatory considerations can apply; — exposure to a particular constituent that arises from sources other than the device, such as food, water or air.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Abbreviated terms and symbols
5 Toxicological risk assessment within the biological evaluation process
5.1 General
5.2 Toxicological risk assessment process
6 Constituent specific toxicological information
6.1 General
6.2 Identification of hazardous constituents
7 Tolerable contact level, tolerable intake and threshold of toxicological concern
7.1 Derivation of TCL and TI
7.2 Application of TTC
8 Exposure dose estimation
9 Margin of safety
9.1 General
9.2 Calculating the margin of safety
10 Toxicological risk acceptance criteria
10.1 General
10.2 Further risk analysis or risk evaluation or risk control
11 Reporting requirements
Annex A Evaluation of toxicological data quality when selecting a point of departure (normative)
Annex B Derivation of toxicological screening limits (normative)
Annex C Derivation of constituent TI or TCL for select endpoints (normative)
Annex D Typical assumptions for biological parameters (informative)
Annex E Estimation of an exposure dose (normative)
Annex F Reporting of toxicological risk assessment information (informative)
ISO 10993-18:2020 Biological evaluation of medical devices — Part 18: Chemical characterization of medical device materials within a risk management process
ISO 10993-1:2018 Biological evaluation of medical devices — Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process
ISO 14971:2019 Medical devices — Application of risk management to medical devices
ISO 10993-18:2020 Biological evaluation of medical devices — Part 18: Chemical characterization of medical device materials within a risk management process
ISO 10993-1:2018 Biological evaluation of medical devices — Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process
ISO 14971:2019 Medical devices — Application of risk management to medical devices
ISO/TS 21726:2019 Biological evaluation of medical devices — Application of the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) for assessing biocompatibility of medical device constituents