US FDA Says Data Integrity Remains Challenging For API Manufacturers

Data integrity issues were raised in many warning letters to active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers over the past four years.

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Makers of active pharmaceutical ingredients need to work on improving the integrity of their manufacturing data, if recent US Food and Drug Administration warning letters are any indication.

In recent years, FDA warning letters were more likely to cite data integrity issues if they went to API manufacturers than if they went to drug product manufacturers, according to data presented by Donald Ashley, director of the Office of Compliance in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,

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