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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.

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The FDA recently issued a Warning Letter to a pharmaceutical company in Thailand for violating CGMP regulations and expectations on Quality Oversight.

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At the beginning of 2024, the EMA added 4 new questions and answers to its catalogue of frequently asked questions from the GMP and GDP area.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published two new Warning Letters to companies registered as a manufacturer of over-the-counter (OTC) drug products in the United States. In both cases, the firms did not demonstrate that they adequately tested each shipment of each lot of the incoming components at high-risk of diethylene glycol (DEG) or ethylene glycol (EG) contamination.

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In January 2024, the U.S. FDA issued a Warning Letter to the company "Prime Lab LLC" after having inspected its site in July and August 2023. According to the WL, the firm failed to do proper incoming control tests for identity of their raw materials.

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Not responding to FDA requests for records related to drug manufacturing and product quality is not a good idea, as can be seen by a recently published Warning Letter.

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Even with increasing distance to the pandemic situation, manufacturers of disinfectant products still seem to be relying on less stringent controls. After a large number of Warning Letters regarding hand sanitizers with contaminated or poorly analyzed products in the Americas and Southeast Asia, a Turkish company is now affected. The company Sudesan in Istanbul received a Warning Letter from the FDA listing several deviations.

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In December 2023, the U.S. FDA issued a Warning Letter (WL) to the US American company "Inopak, Ltd." after having inspected its site in July and August 2023. According to U.S. FDA Warning Letter, the firm failed to maintain an ongoing stability program for their drug product.

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On 29 November 2023, a new FDA Form 483 that goes back to an inspection in October at a company in India was published. The 23-page report lists a total of 10 observations. Beside others, laboratory equipment including HPLCs, GCs, and UV Spectrophotometers used in commercial release and stability analysis were observed not meeting the calibration specifications.

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The current version of the EMA/CMDh nitrosamine Q&A document "Questions and answers for marketing authorisation holders/applicants on the CHMP Opinion for the Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 referral on nitrosamine impurities in human medicinal products", dated October 2023, contains Annex 1 and three further appendices (Appendix 1-3). In December 2023, Appendix 1 was updated and now contains five additional substances.

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