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FDA Warning Letter Blasts Mylan’s Lax API Impurity Controls

Cites Equipment Cleaning And Monitoring Of Recovered Solvents For Impurities

 
• By Joanne S. Eglovitch

Concerned about another possible nitrosamine scare, the US FDA has sent a warning letter to Mylan focusing on the firm’s failure to control contamination risks of its APIs and inadequate testing of reused solvents.

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FDA Tells Mylan To Learn From Earlier Mistakes • Source: Shutterstock

A warning letter the US Food and Drug Administration sent on 20 August to Mylan targets the firm’s lax cleaning procedures for equipment holding and manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients and a failure to test reused solvents used to make APIs at the Mylan Unit 7 facility in Pashamylaram, India.

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