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US FDA: Sun’s Mohali Plant Dropped Ball On Worker’s Data Integrity Allegations

 
• By Bowman Cox

Was backdating of GMP records part of an effort to move suspect product? FDA investigators found Sun was leaving lots of stones unturned in its effort to find out.

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A pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in northern India that the US Food and Drug Administration subjected to an import alert and consent decree a decade ago is under a cloud once again now that the agency has disclosed new inspection findings.

Whether the latest findings lead to additional enforcement actions depends in part on how the plant's current owner, Sun

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• By Eliza Slawther

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• By Vibha Ravi

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