The US FDA Acts To Bolster Adverse Event Reporting For Compounded Drugs

After discovering one firm suppressed over 4,000 compounded-hormone adverse event reports, agency leans on compounders and outsourcers to improve reporting.

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FDA Wants Drug Compounding Pharmacies To Up Their Adverse Reporting Game • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to improve the reporting of adverse events with compounded drugs, and aims to finalize a memorandum of understanding with states agreeable to reporting such events to the FDA when they occur at state-regulated compounding pharmacies.

This action was prompted by a recent case involving BioTE Medical, which suppressed 4,202 adverse events over a five-year period...

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