It appears that FDA may be close to issuing a less onerous version of its July 2014 Draft Interim GMP Guidance for Section 503B Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facilities. Reuters reported last week that in an interview with FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, the Commissioner stated that to encourage more firms to register as compounding outsourcing facilities […]
In the past week, the news media reported on President Trump’s meeting with some leaders of big pharma and among the themes discussed were the lowering of drug prices, cutting regulation, speeding up drug approvals and bringing jobs back to the U.S. Previous postings have pointed out how the administration’s current freeze on Federal hiring […]
FDA has given new notice to registered pharmacy outsourcing facilities that it is prepared to take aggressive enforcement action against serious violators. In one of its first major enforcement actions of 2016, a Consent Decree of Permanent Injunction was entered on January 8th against Downing Labs (formerly NuVision), a Dallas, Texas outsourcing facility manufacturing both non-sterile drug products and injectable drugs.
