Audits and Inspections

FDA sent a warning letter to Health Pharma USA after an inspection found the company’s quality unit was not properly overseeing its drug manufacturing operations.

The agency sent a warning letter to Henan Kangdi Medical Devices Co. Ltd after an inspection found CGMP violations that included a variety of failures of the company’s quality unit.

FDA sent a warning letter to Dercher Enterprises, Inc., DBA Gordon Laboratories, for CGMP violations and adulterated drug products.

The European Medicines Agency and its European partners have launched a pilot program for cooperation in the inspection of facilities that manufacture sterile drug products.

The successful inspection comes after the facility passed a pre-approval inspection in June 2019 from Japan’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency for an innovative drug.

FDA sent a warning letter to Stemell, Inc. for manufacturing and distributing unapproved products derived from umbilical cord blood and umbilical cord and for significant deviations from current good tissue practice and current good manufacturing practices.

A US District Court judge in Tennessee entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Basic Reset and Biogenyx after multiple FDA inspections of the companies’ facility found violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

FDA sent a warning letter to NingBo Huize Commodity Co. after an investigation of the company’s Zhejiang facility found falsified quality documents.

FDA sent a warning letter to Emcure Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. because of sterility testing CGMP violations.

Spectrum Laboratory Products received an FDA warning letter after violations were found at its New Brunswick, NJ facility.

FDA sent a warning letter to Ecometics, Inc. after the agency found CGMP violations at the company’s Norwalk facility.

Slovakia becomes the final European Union country to be recognized by FDA, and the mutual recognition agreement for inspections of manufacturing sites between the US and the EU is now fully implemented.

Cultural and language discrepancies during an audit can be resolved using what many call a “playbook,” says Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, vice-president, technical, Parexel Consulting.

Vida International received an FDA warning letter after an inspection found quality control violations.

The two countries have been included into the mutual recognition agreement between the European Union and the US FDA that recognizes facility inspections conducted in different territories.

Two facilities owned by Pharmasol Corporation were cited for violations of current good manufacturing practices in a FDA warning letter.

A US District Judge in the Southern District of Florida held that the US Stem Cell Clinic of Weston, FL and US Stem Cell of Sunrise, FL adulterated and misbranded a stem cell drug product made from a patient’s adipose tissue.

FDA’s annual manufacturing report card shows more quality compliance is needed.

Violations found by FDA included a failure to test product for API identity and strength, failure to validate outsourced materials, and a lack of written cleaning procedures.

Inspectors found a lack of control over computer systems and a failure to follow equipment cleaning and maintenance procedures.

FDA is examining and updating its programs for overseeing global operations and international affairs.

We need to understand both sides when it comes to audits, says Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, vice-president, technical, PAREXEL Consulting.

The company’s center of excellence for advanced analytical testing passed GMP inspection from the European Medicines Agency.

FDA sent a warning letter to RIJ Pharmaceutical LLC after an inspection of the company’s Middletown, NY facility found CGMP violations.

The agency sent a warning letter to Luen Fook Medicine Sdn., Bhd. for CGMP violations found at the company’s Malaysia facility.