WHEN IS PARAMETRIC RELEASE USING TERMINAL STERILIZATION NOT STERILIZATION 3. "Your firm failed to establish laboratory controls that include scientifically sound and appropriate specifications, standards, sampling plans, and test procedures designed to assure that components, drug product containers, closures, in-process materials, labeling, and drug products conform to … [Read more...]
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORP RECEIVES SINGLE WARNING LETTER FOR TWO LOCATIONS (05/31/13)
TOTAL MANAGEMENT COLLAPSE OF TERMINAL STERILIZATION OCCURS AT THE MARION, NC FACILITY BASED UPON FDA FINDINGS The FDA recently audited two Baxter Healthcare facilities to include Marion, NC (November 7 to 16,2012) , and Jayuya, Puerto Rico (March 13, 2013 to April 19, 2013). Their Investigators identified significant violations of current good manufacturing … [Read more...]
CONTRACT PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (05/17/13) RECEIVES WARNING LETTER
HUMIDITY PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN THE PACKAGING OF A DRUG PRODUCT Contract Pharmaceutical Services of Australia was audited by the FDA from October 30 through November 1, 2012. The FDA identified significant violations of cGMP for finished pharmaceuticals during the visit. Based upon these violations, the drug products were deemed to be … [Read more...]
INDIAN MANUFACTURING FACILITIES CONTINUE TO RECEIVE FDA REGULATORY ACTIONS
HOSPIRA'S IRUNGATTUKOTTAI FACILITY RECEIVES WARNING LETTER (052813) Recently Ranbaxy settled a $500 million lawsuit with the Dept. of Justice for selling improperly manufactured and tested drugs (see previous Blogs). More recently, Maharashtra-based Wockhardt received an Import ban (see previous Blogs to learn of what other Indian based … [Read more...]
FDA CDER Most Frequent Form FDA 483 Observations Fiscal Year 2012
COMMENT Each year CDER summarizes the number of significant Observations obtained from Form FDA 483s. Enclosed are the "top fifteen" Observations. The Observations within the top fifteen usually do not change — although their frequency and ranking may vary. Please note that the frequencies of various Observations have … [Read more...]
