US FDA's Cruse Outlines Paths To Quicker Inspections

As US pharmaceutical inspectorate advances toward its pre-pandemic inspection cadence, there is a new focus on accelerating the site inspection process, as well as an effort to improve retention with quicker, more targeted training. OPQO chief Alonza Cruse reviews key ideas at GMP conference.

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TIme to run through another inspection • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration is working to inspect pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities more quickly with workers who are trained more quickly to accelerate a pharmaceutical manufacturing inspection program that is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

An inspection backlog that built up when investigators with the FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs were grounded for months during the global public health emergency has stubbornly persisted.

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