Your firm failed to establish adequate written procedures for production and process control designed to assure that the drug products you manufacture have the identity, strength, quality, and purity they purport or are represented to possess (21 CFR 211.100(a)). You failed to adequately validate your manufacturing processes to demonstrate that your processes are reproducible and controlled to consistently yield drug products of uniform character and quality. For example…
Inspection Record
Columbia Cosmetics Manufacturing Inc. — FDA Warning Letter Findings
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Findings
Your firm failed to thoroughly investigate any unexplained discrepancy or failure of a batch or any of its components to meet any of its specifications, whether or not the batch has already been distributed (21 CFR 211.192). You manufacture over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreen drug products. Your firm failed to conduct adequate investigations into out-of-specification (OOS) results. For example, an OOS result for bulk batch (b)(4) indicated subpotency for one of the active…
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)). You did not perform adequate identity testing on each shipment of each lot of incoming components (e.g., glycerin) used in the manufacture of your…
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