Selected passages from the FDA letter
Quoted FDA text from the published dataset. These selected excerpts are not the complete letter.
Passage 1Your firm failed to clean, maintain, and, as appropriate for the nature of the drug, sanitize and/or sterilize equipment and utensils at appropriate intervals to prevent malfunctions or contamination that would alter the safety, identity, strength, quality, or purity of the drug product beyond the official or other established requirements (21 CFR 211.67(a)).
Passage 2You failed to adequately clean and maintain your filling rooms and tube filling equipment used to manufacture your **(b)(4)** and **(b)(4)** over-the-counter (OTC) drug products. For example, our investigators observed the following:
Passage 3Your firm failed to have buildings used in the manufacture, processing, packing, or holding of drug products with adequate space for the orderly placement of equipment and materials to prevent mix-ups and contamination (21 CFR 211.42(b)).
Citations in the original letter
As cited in this historical letter, not a statement of current regulatory requirements.
- 21 CFR 210
- 21 CFR 211.67(a)
- 21 CFR 211.42(b)
- 21 CFR 211.22
- 21 CFR 211.100(a)
- 21 CFR 211.166(a)
- 21 CFR 211.188
- 21 CFR 211.192
- 21 CFR 211.100(b)