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Drug recalls increased for the third straight year, with companies pulling six percent more products in 2014 than the year before and foreign particles being the top culprit. Read More
With the launch of the FDA’s new Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, all ANDA filers are now eligible for the OPQ’s new real-time communications program – the quick-turnaround method the agency will use to resolve minor questions about chemistry, manufacturing and controls during ANDA reviews. Read More
The FDA has issued an import alert for an Australian manufacturing plant, barring it from shipping Eli Lilly’s erectile dysfunction drug Cialis into the U.S. Read More
Beginning yesterday, all NDAs will undergo a risk assessment by a team of FDA reviewers that will follow the drug from preapproval through manufacturing and into any eventual generic forms in an effort to ensure quality throughout a product’s lifecycle. Read More
The FDA last month warned a Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) maker for data integrity violations, marking the agency’s 13th warning letter to cite data integrity out of 18 overall warnings released in 2014 for quality violations. Read More
With the FDA stepping up scrutiny of data integrity during facility inspections, drugmakers must be ready to answer tough questions about their electronic record system, an inspections expert said. Read More
The FDA approved Impax Labs’ Parkinson’s disease drug Rytary after the drugmaker agreed to not use a troubled manufacturing facility for production. Read More
Drug recalls increased for the third straight year, with companies pulling six percent more products in 2014 than the year before and foreign particles being the top culprit. Read More
With the FDA stepping up scrutiny of data integrity during facility inspections, drugmakers must be ready to answer tough questions about their electronic record system, an inspections expert said. Read More
A compounding pharmacy pled guilty recently to manufacturing contaminated products that caused skin infections, the first compounder to be convicted of criminal charges for poor quality since the FDA gained new authority in 2013. Read More
Manufacturers are urging the FDA to ax three proposed quality metrics related to annual product reviews that would measure a facility’s quality culture, claiming they are too burdensome, unnecessary and confusing. Read More