Warning Letter – Lack of Data Integrity

Pharmaceutical Laboratories and Consultants, Inc.
Date:8/29/18

This warning letter summarizes significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) regulations for finished pharmaceuticals. See 21 CFR, parts 210 and 211. Because your methods, facilities, or controls for manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to CGMP, your drug products are adulterated within the meaning of section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), 21 U.S.C. 351(a)(2)(B). Data Integrity Remediation Your quality system does not adequately ensure the accuracy and integrity of data to support the safety, effectiveness, and quality of the drugs you manufacture. In response to this letter, provide the following: A. A comprehensive investigation into the extent of the inaccuracies in data, records, and reporting, including results of the data review for drugs distributed to the United States. Include a detailed description of the scope and root causes of your data integrity lapses. B. A current risk assessment of the potential effects of the observed failures on the quality of your drugs. Your assessment should include analyses of the risks to patients caused by the release of drugs affected by a lapse of data integrity, and risks posed by ongoing operations. C A management strategy for your firm that includes the details of your global corrective action and preventive action plan. The detailed CAPA plan should describe how you intend to ensure the reliability and completeness of all data generated by your firm, including all laboratory data, manufacturing records, and all data submitted to FDA.

FDA District: Detroit

About the author

Partner and General Manager, Brian Pate is ISO 1385:2016 Lead Auditor certified for Medical Device Quality Management Systems (MD), and ISO 19011:2018 Management Systems Auditing (AU) and Leading Management Systems Audit Teams (TL). Brian started his medical device career in anesthesia clinical research in 1985 and has since worked both academia and industry including many years with Johnson & Johnson, Baxter Healthcare, and GE Medical. Brian’s roles have included software engineering, systems engineering, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs. Brian has served on multiple AAMI TIR working groups, including TIR32-2008 (Application of ISO 14971 Risk Management to Software; now IEC 80002-1) and TIR45-2012 (Guidance on the use of Agile practices in the development of medical device software) and served as a reviewer for the 2nd edition of TIR45. Brian serves on the AAMI Software Committee and as an AAMI instructor for the software, design controls, and agile methods courses. Brian also is a member of the Underwriters’ Laboratories (UL) Standards Technical Panel for UL1998 (Software in Programmable Components) and or UL5500 (Remote Software Updates).

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