On Oct. 21 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration is asking for comments by Dec. 23 on a new draft guidance on elemental impurities in pharmaceutical products. The draft guidelines (here), agreed to by the joint U.S.-European Union-Japan International Conference on Harmonization, would set safety limits for specific elements, and emphasizes control of supply chains and risk assessments, FDA said. The joint standard would set consistent expectations for test requirements and regulatory filings among the three ICH countries, said FDA.
On Oct. 18 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Oct. 17 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration will still hold its public meeting on the Foreign Supplier Verification Program and third-party auditor accreditation proposed rules in Long Beach, Calif., Oct. 22 and 23. The agency had to cancel a similar meeting Oct. 10-11 in Miami due to the federal government shutdown (see 13100803). FDA posted an agenda for the Long Beach meeting (here).
On Oct. 16 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Oct. 15 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Oct. 11 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Oct. 10 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to device companies in Canada, China, and Japan, citing violations of current good manufacturing practice requirements at facilities owned by Batrik Medical (here), Anji Zhengbang Medical (here), and NIDEK (here), respectively. The letters, all sent between Sept. 19 and Sept. 24, gave each company 15 business days to fix the problems found during FDA inspections.