A warning letter to Ahmedabad, India-based Cadila Healthcare, issued by FDA’s drug compliance office in late June, is the second in as many months to cite an Indian sterile product manufacturer for recording air sampling plate counts that did not match what agency investigators observed during the inspection.
The same issue of micro lab data integrity was prominent in a warning letter issued to Aurobindo Pharma in late May regarding its manufacturing operations in Hyderabad, India (IPQ “In the News” June 13).
As in Aurobindo’s case, Cadila was cited for reporting results for micro plates used as part of the firm’s environmental monitoring (EM) effort as “NIL” – meaning no growth – when agency investigators reviewing the plates observed growth.
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