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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
The FDA unveiled a broad plan that will change the way it inspects drugmakers, approves recalls, issues and reviews enforcement decisions, screens imports and tests products for quality, with drugmakers likely to start feeling the impact by the end of 2015. Read More
FDA investigators will be able to photograph most areas of a facility during an inspection, including product labels and visible contamination of materials, according to a final guidance issued last month. 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
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
FDA investigators will be able to photograph most areas of a facility during an inspection, including product labels and visible contamination of materials, according to a final guidance issued yesterday. Read More
The FDA did not buy a manufacturer’s rationale that its quality lapses are due to different Chinese standards, resulting in a warning letter for a slew of violations. Read More
The FDA slammed a Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturer for using a supplier of potentially contaminated heparin and for restricting access during an inspection. Read More