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Drugmakers Sagent and Baxter Healthcare recently recalled products due to labeling mix-ups, a common quality problem that one expert says can be easily solved through an additional examination by personnel. Read More
The FDA issued a warning letter to injectables giant Hospira after an investigation of its Victoria, Australia, plant uncovered significant GMP violations, including a failure to adequately investigate failed batches and determine levels of impurities in distributed products. Read More
Drugmakers should upgrade their quality assurance systems to quickly identify and fix any manufacturing problems that could spiral into a shortage, according to a wide-ranging plan to address shortfalls in drug supplies. Read More
Drugmakers may soon have to report to the FDA how they decide when to launch a corrective or preventive action (CAPA) investigation, if they have a performance index for their product’s critical quality attributes and the seniority level of the employee who signs off on the annual product review. Read More
Starting early next year, manufacturers will learn faster whether their drug applications have serious quality deficiencies under a sweeping reorganization of CDER’s quality functions into a new “super office.” Read More
The UK’s health care costs regulator is recommending Boehringer Ingelheim’s anticoagulant Pradaxa as an option to treat and prevent recurrent and potentially fatal blood clots in the legs and lungs. Read More
A new report from the Italian Medicines Agency says that 10 percent of Italian hospitals experience pharmaceutical thefts, a problem that the European pharmaceutical industry hopes to end with a pan-European verification system set to go live by 2017. Read More
FDA investigators are finding unprecedented data integrity problems at contract and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers, even after they have been audited by the firms that hired them, an FDA official said. Read More
The FDA warned a partially defunct compounder for a multitude of quality violations such as using soap and water to clean parts of the production facility. Read More
Mylan recalled 15,966 bottles of the blood pressure drug metoprolol succinate tablets due to a product mix-up, the third recall in the past five months involving generic versions of AstraZeneca’s Toprol-XL. Read More