FDA warning letter · Biologics

Smart Surgical, Inc dba Burst Biologics

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

Failure to have an adequate system for monitoring environmental conditions in an aseptic processing area necessary to prevent contamination or mixups [21 CFR 211.42(c)(10)(iv)].** Your firm has not established an adequate system for environmental, including personnel, monitoring in the aseptic processing areas where BioBurst Fluid and BioBurst Rejuv are manufactured. For example:

Passage 2

Failure to withhold from use each lot of components, drug product containers, and closures until the lot has been sampled, tested, or examined, as appropriate, and released for use by the quality control unit [21 CFR 211.84(a)].** Specifically, you told our investigator that components utilized within UCB (umbilical cord blood) manufacturing are not sampled and tested prior to being used in production.

Citations in the original letter

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

  • 21 CFR 1271
  • 21 CFR 1271.10(a)
  • 21 CFR 1271.15
  • 21 CFR 1271.3(d)
  • 21 CFR 1271.10(a)(2)
  • 21 CFR 1271.3(c)
  • 21 CFR 1271.10(a)(4)
  • 21 CFR 1271.75(a)(1)
  • 21 CFR 1271.75(d)(1)
  • 21 CFR 1271.3(r)(2)
  • 21 CFR 211.113(b)
  • 21 CFR 211.42(c)(10)(iv)
  • 21 CFR 211.84(a)
  • 21 CFR 211.192
  • 21 CFR 211.165(e)
  • 21 CFR 312