Regarding comments made in the November 2002 Quality Mailbag, one of your readers wrote about how ISO 9001: 2000 requires design changes be approved before implementation.
The same requirement the reader is griping about in section 7.3.7 is in ISO 9001: 1994, section 4.4.9. I don’t have ISO9001:1987, but I’d bet the same requirement was there also. It’s at least been around since 1994, so it’s nothing new.