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A look at the warning letters to pharmaceutical companies of the last nine months of the current fiscal year (Oct. 2019 - June 2020) shows the most frequent GMP violations found by FDA inspectors. Read more about the Warning Letter Analysis in this article of the GMP Journal

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to a Mexican manufacturer. According to the FDA, the firm did not adequately validate the process and qualify the equipment used to manufacture the drug products. Furthermore, the company did not adequately test components prior to use in the manufacture of drug products destined for the US market.

The updated version of the paperback "ICH Q7 Side-by-Side Comparison", which lists and compares the "ICH Q7 Guideline - GMP for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients" with the "How to do"- Document - Interpretation of ICH Q7 Guide and "Review form" on GMPs for APIs, is now available.

A repacker in the US has recently received a Warning Letter from the FDA. The described deficiencies are repackaging of products in non-equivalent primary packaging, the lack of cleaning validation and the establishment of a suitable quality unit.