FDA warning letter · Drugs

Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation dba Nephron Sterile Compounding Center, LLC

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 establish an adequate system for monitoring environmental conditions in aseptic processing areas (21 CFR 211.42(c)(10)(iv)).

Passage 2

Your firm 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(b)).

Passage 3

Your firm failed to thoroughly investigate any unexplained discrepancy or failure of a batch or any of its components to meet any of its specifications, whether or not the batch has already been distributed (21 CFR 211.192).

Passage 4

Your firm failed to establish and follow appropriate written procedures that are designed to prevent microbiological contamination of drug products purporting to be sterile, and that include validation of all aseptic and sterilization processes (21CFR113(b)).

Passage 5

Your firm failed to maintain written production, control, or distribution records specifically associated with a batch of a drug product for at least one year after the expiration date of the batch (CFR 211.180(a)).

Citations in the original letter

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

  • 21 CFR 113
  • 21 CFR 200.10(b)
  • 21 CFR 201.115
  • 21 CFR 210
  • 21 CFR 210.1(b)
  • 21 CFR 211.42(c)(10)(iv)
  • 21 CFR 211.165(b)
  • 21 CFR 211.192
  • 21 CFR 211.194