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Beleaguered Indian companies continue to stumble when it comes to quality issues, with generics maker Wockhardt conducting yet another recall, and active pharmaceutical ingredients makers Mahendra Chemicals and Nosch Labs racking up GMP deficiencies. Read More
Early notice of production shutdowns by manufacturers of life-supporting and life-sustaining drugs and biologics have allowed the FDA to avert more than 550 potential drug shortages in the last three years, the agency says in a final rule mandating early notice. Read More
This past month, FDA zapped seven more compounders in Tennessee, California, Florida, Arkansas, Montana and Washington over sterility issues. The FDA handed out three warning letters, three Form 483s and one facility issued a recall following an inspection. Read More
Drugmakers in the EU have less than eight months to conduct risk assessments of all the excipients they use, under good manufacturing practices guidelines imposed by the European Commission. Read More
The European Medicines Agency has issued draft guidance on the manufacture of finished dosage forms, clarifying what information drugmakers should include in the quality section of the common technical document that is part of a premarket application. Read More
The FDA has identified 10 quality data points that finished dosage form and active pharmaceutical ingredient makers will need to collect to calculate four quality metrics for each product they produce. Read More
Baxter International is recalling one lot of IV solution over leakage, particulates and missing port protectors — the company’s eighth recall since December 2013 and the second in July. Read More