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Luitpold Pharmaceuticals was chided by the FDA for failing to properly investigate how severe roof leaks in 2013 and 2014 affected production. Read More
Contract OTC manufacturer Gopers Int. doesn’t have a quality control unit, keep batch records or properly train its employees, according to an FDA Form 483 that features a litany of quality violations. Read More
Ariad Pharmaceuticals failed to submit a slew of adverse event reports within the 15-day deadline and follow the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy for its blockbuster leukemia drug Iclusig, prompting a 483.
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Indian officials are accusing FDA investigators of inspecting drug manufacturers in the country without Indian inspectors present, violating an agreement between the two countries that calls for local regulators to tag along on FDA drug manufacturing inspections as observers. Read More
The FDA has upgraded its rating on Fresenius’ APP Pharmaceuticals’ New York plant, clearing the facility, which had been troubled by pest problems, to produce new drugs for Fresenius’ Kabi arm. Read More
Beginning last month, 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
A Japanese active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer received a Form 483 for poor validation of its manufacturing methods and supplier controls. Read More
The House Energy & Commerce Committee that oversees the FDA is planning an overhaul of agency procedures to increase orphan drug development, streamline clinical trials oversight, give industry incentives to find new uses for old drugs and expand U.S. drug manufacturing. Read More
The FDA barred beleaguered drugmaker Ipca Laboratories from shipping drugs to the U.S because of good manufacturing practice violations — the 27th time the agency has cracked down on GMP violations at Indian drug facilities in the last two years. Read More
The FDA has upgraded its rating on Fresenius’ APP Pharmaceuticals New York plant, clearing the facility, which had been troubled by pest problems, to produce new drugs for Fresenius’ Kabi arm. Read More
The FDA is considering a new inspections scoring system that would, for the first time, recognize drugmakers that go beyond normal compliance with good manufacturing practices. Read More
Last year saw major strides in increasing transparency around clinical trial data in the EU and trial safety and compensation in India. An international group also set the gears in motion for a harmonized guideline on multiregional clinical studies.Read More