Enforcement In Brief

Failure to follow good manufacturing practices lands the owner and two managers of Quality Formulation Laboratories Inc. and [American Sports Nutrition Inc.] in prison, the Department of Justice announces. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Garrett Brown Jr. sentenced owner Mohamed Desoky to more than three years in prison and managers Ahmed Desoky and Omar Desoky to almost three years in prisons. The firms must pay $1 million in criminal fines. FDA inspectors reported several GMP violations during a January 2009 inspection, including a dead rodent on a blender motor platform and several other living and dead rodents in the storage and blending areas. The court ordered the firms to discontinue operations, but they set up shop at other sites without notifying FDA or addressing the problems, the agency says ([A#05170280011_b]).

U.S. Marshals seize all products made at Syntec Inc.’s Hillsboro, Wis., manufacturing facility because the firm failed to address good...