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FDA Inspections: Lesson 1 – Interviewing Employees

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Although FDA has long taken the position that it has broad authority in how it conducts its inspections, it was not until 2012 that Congress put some teeth behind FDAs policy position. Using publicly available examples, these lessons will illustrate potential pitfalls and strategies for interacting with FDA during and after an inspection.

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Quiet on the Set? Forbidding FDA To Take Photographs During An Inspection Can Be Regrettable

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The current Warning Letter was issued to a drug manufacturer in China (Tianjin Darentang Jingwanhong Pharmaceutical Co., Management, according to the Warning Letter, “stated that the investigators were not allowed to take photographs of the equipment as part of the inspection.” 331(f)).

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News on FDA’s Quality Management Maturity Program-Maturity to Continually Improve and to not be Reactive

FDA Law Blog

Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Expert — In January 2023, FDA published a paper summarizing its lessons learned from two pilot Quality Management Maturity (QMM) Pilot Programs, such as best practices for conducting QMM assessments and developing the QMM scoring system. By Holly N.

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Does the Drug Shortage White Paper Fall Short?

FDA Law Blog

For generic drug manufacturing facilities specifically, the numbers are 63% and 87%. The proposed Manufacturing Resiliency Assessment Program (MRAP) would be managed as a public-private partnership and would assign resilience scores to manufacturers of generic drugs, “based on an assessment of manufacturer practices and past performance.”

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. And for that reason, there was actually an enormous lawsuit, and the manufacturer was fined, now I think 20 years ago, in the millions and millions of dollars for off-label prescribing. J Am Geriatr Soc.