The quality control unit lacks responsibility to approve and reject all procedures or specifications impacting on the identity, strength, quality, and purity ofdrug products.
Inspection Record
Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc. — FDA 483 Findings
Inspectors Binh T Nguyen · Joey V. Quitania · Thomas J. Arista and 1 moreThe inspectors who signed the published document.Inspector lookup
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Findings
Procedures designed to prevent microbiological contamination ofdrug products purporting to be sterile are not established and written.
Testing and relea.se ~f drug product for distribution do not include appropriate laboratOly determination of satisfactory I confunnance to thennat specIfications pnorto release.
l in-process materials are not tested for quality and purity and approved or rejected by the quality control unit during the production process.
Equipment used in the manufacture, processing, packing or holding ofdrug products is not ofappropriate design to facilitate operations for its intended use.
Acceptance criteria for the sampling and testing conducted by the quality control unit is not adequate to assure that batches of drug products meet appropriate statistical quality control criterla as a condition for their approval and release.
The responsibilities and procedures applicable to the quality control unit are not in writing.
II II Equipment and utensils are not cleaned and sanitized at appropriate intervals to prevent contamination that would alter the safety, identity, strength, quality or purity ofthe drug product: - I ;~;;;,;,:~:;,o:;::~~oo:;::~~;~,:::;;:;;::;:~.::"~::,:::,~;,~,=,",,,oo "',~ (b) (4) "-~ ., ,- C.
Each batch ofdrug product required to be free ofobjectionable microorganisms is not tested through appropriate laboratory testing.
There is a failure to thorougWy review any unexplained discrepancy whether or not the batch has been already distributed.
Each lot ofa component liable to objectionable microbiological contamination is deficiently subjected to microbiological tests before use.
Investigations ofan unexplained discrepancy did not extend to other batches ofthe same drug product and other drug products that may have been associated with the specific failure or discrepancy.
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Extracted automatically from the document US FDA published on 2024-01-17. The source is available at the link above.
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