On 26.11.2004, the MDACS system was introduced by the Medical Device Division (MDD), formerly known as the Medical Device Control Office (MDCO), to raise public awareness on the safe use of medical devices and enable traders to familiarize themselves with the future mandatory requirements. The MDD operates under the Department of Health to develop a long-term statutory regulatory framework for medical devices based on the principles classified by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF).
The IMDRF, previously known as the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF), is a voluntary group of medical device regulators from around the world who have come together to build on the strong foundational work of the Global Harmonization Task Force on Medical Devices (GHTF) and aims to accelerate international medical device regulatory harmonization and convergence. IMDRF members include Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States of America.
