GMP News - Inspections/Audits

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to a drug manufacturing facility in Missouri. The company failed to adequately investigate the presence of foreign tablets in the drug products. Furthermore, during an FDA inspection, one operator was observed to pick individual tablets up off of the floor and place them directly into the feed hopper.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has again found genotoxic and potentially carcinogenic impurities in hand sanitizers. In this case, it is about an American manufacturer in whose products benzene, acetaldehyde and acetal impurities were detected at unacceptable levels.

In July 2022, the U.S. FDA issued a Warning Letter to the U.S. American company "Jost Chemical Co." after having inspected its site in January 2022. The Warning Letter mentions the list of cGMP observations for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Form 483 to India-based manufacturer Sun Pharmaceutical following an inspection of its Mohali facility in August 2022. Among other observations, it came out that employees responsible for collecting samples did not enter the buildings where the samples were documented to have been collected. In other cases, based on building access records, the employee was in a different building at the time the sample was documented to have been collected.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Amazon for selling unapproved drugs for mole and skin tag removal that have not been evaluated by the FDA for safety, effectiveness or quality. Amazon has 15 working days to respond and explain the specific steps that were taken to address the violations. Otherwise, legal action may result.

Inspections are a regulatory requirement in the GMP environment. This also applies to the USA. But what happens if a manufacturer simply refuses to permit a GMP inspection?