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The compounding pharmacy lobby is pushing back against the FDA’s campaign to encourage hospitals to buy compounded drugs only from agency-registered sites as disingenuous and misleading, saying the products aren’t necessarily safer for patients. Read More
Quebec drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals is acquiring Rhode Island’s PreCision Dermatology in a transaction expected to close in the first half of this year. Read More
China’s Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) is renewing its push to have all manufacturers of blood products, vaccines and sterile injectables obtain a revised good manufacturing practices (GMP) certificate. Read More
Proposed international guidelines on metal impurities in finished drugs may be impossible to meet because they lack specificity and are impractical for suppliers, drugmakers say. Read More
Japan’s national drug regulator has asked drugmakers to submit information on stability monitoring and water purity, in addition to existing requirements, when they apply for mandatory post-approval GMP inspections. Read More
Pharma companies applying for approval to sell drugs in Canada must submit quality summary documents, certifications of their products’ comparability with monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia and detailed drug master files that comply with the International Conference on Harmonisation’s (ICH) registration for human use quality standards. Read More
Ranbaxy’s regulatory woes deepened last month as the FDA prohibited the drugmaker’s Toansa, India, plant from manufacturing and distributing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for U.S. products after a poor inspection. Read More
The FDA has hit two compounding pharmacies with warning letters for quality violations and failure to have prescriptions for products they were compounding. Read More
With only 14 compounding facilities having volunteered for FDA oversight in two months, the agency is now asking hospitals and state authorities to get behind the registration effort. Read More