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 thoroughly investigate any unexplained discrepancy or the 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 2Your firm failed to establish an adequate system for monitoring environmental conditions in aseptic processing area (21 CFR 42(c)(10)(iv)).
Passage 3Your 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 processes (21 CFR 211.113(b)).
Passage 4Your firm failed to establish laboratory controls that include scientifically sound and appropriate specifications, standards, sampling plans, and test procedures designed to assure that drug products conform to appropriate standards of identity, strength, quality, and purity (21 CFR 211.160(b)).
Passage 5Your firm failed to conduct at least one test to verify the identity of each component of a drug product. Your firm also failed to validate and establish the reliability of your component supplier’s test analyses at appropriate intervals (21 CFR 211.84(d)(1), 211.84(d)(2)).
Passage 6Your firm failed to prepare batch production and control records with complete information relating to the production and control of each batch of drug product produced (21 CFR 211.188).
Citations in the original letter
As cited in this historical letter, not a statement of current regulatory requirements.
- 21 CFR 200.10(b)
- 21 CFR 201.115
- 21 CFR 210
- 21 CFR 210.1(b)
- 21 CFR 211.192
- 21 CFR 211.113(b)
- 21 CFR 211.160(b)
- 21 CFR 211.84(d)(1)
- 21 CFR 211.188
- 21 CFR 42