Your firm failed to establish and follow an adequate written testing program designed to assess the stability characteristics of drug products and to use results of stability testing to determine appropriate storage conditions and expiration dates (21 CFR 211.166(a)). Your firm assigned a (b)(4) expiration date to your sterile (b)(4) despite having only (b)(4) of stability data. Additionally, your firm's procedure did not address ongoing stability testing to monitor your…
Inspection Record
Wuxi Medical Instrument Factory Co., Ltd. — FDA Warning Letter Findings
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Findings
Your firm failed to test samples of each component for identity and conformity with all appropriate written specifications for purity, strength, and quality. Your firm also failed to validate and establish the reliability of your component supplier’s test analyses at appropriate intervals (21 CFR 211.84(d)(1) and 211.84(d)(2)). Your firm relied solely on certificates of analysis (COAs) for incoming lots of (b)(4) , instead of conducting identity testing and verification for…
Your firm failed to conduct appropriate laboratory testing to determine whether each batch of drug product purporting to be sterile and pyrogen-free conforms to such requirements (21 CFR 211.167(a)). You manufactured and distributed an (b)(4) product labeled as "sterile." However, you failed to perform sterility testing. It is essential that you conduct sterility testing on these and other purportedly sterile drugs prior to batch disposition decisions. In response to this letter, provide a list of chemical and microbial test methods and specifications used to analyze each batch of your drug product before making a batch disposition decision, and the associated written procedures.
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