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Drugmakers and the FDA have different ideas about the proper scale for the agency’s quality metrics program. While industry supports collecting data on no more than four metrics, the FDA promises only that it will monitor no more than 16. Read More
OTC drugmaker AmeriDerm Laboratories has a long history of failing to test its Paterson, N.J., plant’s water supply for objectionable microorganisms, the FDA says. Read More
The FDA has handed Jubilant HollisterStier a warning letter for quality shortcomings at its Spokane, Wash., sterile drug manufacturing facility. Read More
The FDA issued a Form 483 to Biogen Idec that cites a weakness in the way the company manages suppliers, highlighting the difficulties drugmakers continue to have with supplier quality issues. Read More
HHS has approved the overhaul of the FDA's Office of Generic Drugs (OGD), allowing the agency to move most of its functions relating to generic drugs under one roof. Read More
The FDA may refine its planned quality metrics program to include rankings of individual drugmaker quality — at the request of industry — that will show how a company’s quality system stacks up against its peers. Read More
The FDA is demanding Wockhardt investigate whether management was involved in quality data manipulation at its Chikalthana, India, facility before the agency will lift the import ban it has slapped on the plant. Read More
CDER Director Janet Woodcock has decided to head the FDA’s new Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) herself until it gets off the ground. The new office is planned as a “super office” that will oversee manufacturing quality throughout a drug’s lifecycle. Read More
The FDA wants Wockhardt to investigate whether management was involved in quality data manipulation at its Chikalthana, India, facility before the agency will lift an import ban it slapped on the plant Nov. 26. Read More
Pfizer subsidiary Meridian Medical Technologies is under continued pressure from the FDA to improve oversight and quality at its Missouri plants. Read More
Just days after the FDA’s new authorities over compounding pharmacies were signed into law, the agency last week issued draft guidances detailing how facilities register and report product information to the FDA. Read More