Inspection Record

Impax Laboratories, Inc — FDA 483 Findings

US FDAInspected 2015-07-10Published 2024-01-17 12 findingsDocumentation and recordsComplaint and recall handlingStability and storageComputer system validationMaterial and supplier controlDeviation, CAPA, and investigationLaboratory and QC controlsEquipment and facilityOther quality systemTraining and personnelProcess validation

Inspectors Walden H. Lee · Kim L. Thomas Cruse · Daniel J. RobertsThe inspectors who signed the published document.Inspector lookup

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Findings

1Documentation and records

Batch production and control records do not include complete information relating to the production and control of each b atch.

2Complaint and recall handling

Written procedures are not followed for evaJuations done at least rumually and including provisions for a review of complaints, recalls ..

3Stability and storage

Drug products are not stored under appropriate conditions of humidity so that their identity, strength, quality, and purity are not affected.11Drug products are not stored under appropriate conditions of humidity so that their identity, strength, quality, and purity are not affected.

4Computer system validation

Appropriate controls are nm exercised over computers or related systems to assure that changes i11 master production and control records or other records are instituted only by authorized personneL Specifically, Pertaining to NDA redacted (b)(4) Levodopa / Carbidopa IPX066 A.

5Material and supplier control

Reports of analysis from component suppliers are accepted in lieu o f testing each component for conformity with all appropriate written specifications, without establishing the reliability of the supplier's analyses through appropriate validatio n of the supplier's test results at appropriate intervals.

6Deviation, CAPA, and investigation

There is a failure to thoroughly review any unexplained discrepancy and the failure ofa batch or any of its components to meet any of its specificat ions whether or not the batch has been already distributed.

7Laboratory and QC controls

The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility of test methods have not been established.

8Equipment and facility

Written procedures for cleaning and maintenance fail to include description in sufficient detail of methods, equipment and materials used, description in sufficient detail fo the methods of disassembling and reeassembling equipment is necessary to assure proper cleaning and maintenance and parameters relevant to the operation.

9Other quality system

An annual report did not include a full description of the manufacturing and control changes not requiring a supplemental application, listed by date in the order in which they were implemented.

10Training and personnel

Employees engaged in the manufacture and processing of a drug product lack the training and expe~iencc required to perfonn their assigned functions.

11Other quality system

Procedures describing the warehousing of drug products are not followed.

12Process validation

Control procedures are not established which validate the performance of those manufacturing processes that may be responsible for causing variability in the characteristics of in-process material and the drug product.

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