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We are proud to unveil the newest edition to the FDAzilla website – the FDA inspection database. You can search for company name, or you can drill down to the month, and then to the day, to see inspection details. Some observations from a brief glance into the data: There are 225,000+ inspections […]

By popular demand, we’re excited to announce that we have recently more than doubled the size of our 483 library. After painstakenly obtaining, organizing, renaming, and categorizing these documents, we now have 2,300+ 483s and counting in our library available in PDF format for immediate purchase and download. Better yet, you can now search by […]

Today’s post is written by guest blogger Greg Hattoy. Greg is a regulatory compliance specialist and insightful industry writer at his blog,greghattoy.com. Greg takes a distinct approach to regulatory issues and shares his innovative vision for the direction of the pharmaceutical industry As a regulatory professional, lately it has becoming glaringly apparent that the only […]

I started the QAPharm Blog three years ago as a creative outlet to share my perspective on the pharma industry and the quality assurance profession. I have appreciated my faithful readers from dozens of countries around the world. For years, we’ve been following The QA Pharm Blog. Writen with an equal dose of deep industry […]

We receive a lot of questions, especially from our international colleagues, about how FDA 483s are actually written – the whole “lifecycle”, if you will. Based on manuals and other FDA resources that are publicly available, we answer your 10 most frequently asked questions in this area. Especially if you are new to FDA 483s, […]

In another significant slip, inspectors found that Zorro Technology had not given employees any training in cGMPs (or at least couldn’t prove that they had). Today is our last strategy for avoiding cGMP 483s – make sure QA employees are adequately educated, trained and supervised. Again, this may seem obvious, but in a cutthroat environment […]

Abbott Nutrition was cited a few years ago for failing to exclude pests from processing areas. This was the plant’s 31st citation related to warehouse beetle infestations since 2007. This one may seem obvious, but since it comes up repeatedly in the 483 batch from 2012, let’s say it again. If the FDA cited you […]

We just got the updated list of FDA inspections and FDA 483s – it goes from January 2010 through June 15, 2013. You can purchase the entire spreadsheet (in .xls format) through this link for $569. Great to look for macro trends by region (global, international, or even state level) or to dig deep into […]

Meridian Medical Technologies was cited when inspectors saw a something “which appeared rust-like…on the bottom of the stainless steel plate located across the top of the window in Room [b] in the class [b] area where EpiPen NGA is manufactured.” Ventilation problems. Rust on the walls. Drips in the pipes. Not only are these ugly, […]

Wyeth was dinged by inspectors when it failed to follow its own written procedures for sampling and testing—specifically failing to test at the beginning, middle and end of manufacture for its ChapStick Medicated Stick. It also got cited for failing to follow its own procedures for handling consumer complaints. It’s hard to tell which upsets […]