FDA warning letter · Drugs

Choice All Natural, Inc. dba Om Botanical

Issued · Posted by FDA

Selected passages from the FDA letter

Quoted FDA text from the published dataset. These selected excerpts are not the complete letter.

Passage 1

Your firm failed to maintain the buildings used in the manufacture, processing, packing, or holding of a drug product in a clean and sanitary condition and to keep them free of infestation by rodents, birds, insects, and other vermin (21 CFR 211.56(a)).

Passage 2

Your firm failed to have, for each batch of drug product, appropriate laboratory determination of satisfactory conformance to final specifications for the drug product, including the identity and strength of each active ingredient, prior to release. Your firm also failed to conduct, for each batch of drug product, appropriate laboratory testing, as necessary, required to be free of objectionable microorganisms (21 CFR 211.165(a) and 211.165(b)).

Passage 3

Your firm failed to adequately test your drug products, including the identity and strength of each active ingredient, and testing for objectionable microorganisms, prior to release and distribution into the U.S. market.

Passage 4

Your firm failed to assure that the drug product bore an expiration date that was supported by appropriate stability testing (21 CFR 211.137(a)).

Passage 5

You failed to establish and maintain an ongoing stability testing program to support the labeled expiry on your distributed drug products. There is no assurance that your drug products will remain acceptable throughout their labeled expiry period without an ongoing stability program.

Passage 6

Failure to register in accordance with section 510 of the FD&C Act and failure to provide listing information in accordance with 510(j) of the FD&C Act are prohibited under section 301(p) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 331(p), and will render a drug misbranded under section 502(o) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 352(o). The introduction or delivery for introduction of a misbranded drug into interstate commerce is prohibited under section 301(a) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 331(a).

Passage 7

Failure to address violations may also cause FDA to withhold issuance of Export Certificates. FDA may withhold approval of new applications or supplements listing your firm as a drug manufacturer until any violations are completely addressed and we confirm your compliance with CGMP. We may re-inspect to verify that you have completed corrective actions to address any violations.

Citations in the original letter

As cited in this historical letter, not a statement of current regulatory requirements.

  • 21 CFR 201.128
  • 21 CFR 207
  • 21 CFR 207.17(a)
  • 21 CFR 207.29
  • 21 CFR 207.57(b)
  • 21 CFR 207.57(b)(2)
  • 21 CFR 210
  • 21 CFR 211.56(a)
  • 21 CFR 211.165(a)
  • 21 CFR 211.137(a)