Some filling lines and API plants fared poorly in post-pandemic inspections, with shortfalls identified in sterility assurance and impurity control. Zhejiang Tianyu and System Kosmetik got warning letters. Alvotech, Cipla and Aurobindo got Form 483 reports posted on the FDA website.

Responses to FDA draft guidance suggest more promptness while also more elaborate processes for agency decision making based on remote methods. Questions include what’s voluntary, what’s mandatory, what can be decided remotely, and how to remotely move on from warning letters.

Responses to US FDA draft guidance suggest more promptness while also more elaborate processes for agency decision making based on remote methods. Questions include what’s voluntary, what’s mandatory, what can be decided remotely, and how to remotely move on from warning letters.

Memo outlines how US agency ensured sufficient delivery of updated COVID-19 vaccine doses even as it navigated unresolved inspection findings of the Catalent plant where the additional doses had been manufactured.

The groups on the front lines of the opioid epidemic may not be physicians or pharmacists or drug wholesalers, but they are the ones that need to receive naloxone if it is to do any good. Latest US FDA guidance removes one of the impediments.

US FDA’s Donald Ashley recaps past year’s precedent-setting responses to COVID-19 pandemic in interview, while outlining return to pre-COVID priorities and traditional inspection-based oversight.