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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing, which focused on the comparative frequency and quality of FDA inspections for foreign versus domestic drug manufacturers. Read more in our GMP News.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to a Chinese manufacturer regarding significant violations of cGMP regulations for finished pharmaceuticals. The firm failed to conduct proper analytical testing of incoming API lots and relied solely on supplier COAs without verifying the information. Additionally, there was a lack of documentation for the stability program.

The FDA has revised its Draft Guidance for Industry "Conducting Remote Regulatory Assessments - Questions and Answers", providing answers to frequently asked questions regarding what RRAs are, when and why FDA may use them, and how FDA may conduct them, among others.

We recently reported on a case in which the failure to respond led to a Warning Letter. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now published another incident that also goes in this direction. The FDA had planned an inspection at a manufacturing facility in Thailand, but all efforts to contact the firm were unsuccessful.