New York Supplement Firm Shut Down On GMP Violations Repeated Since 2010

ABH Nature’s and its owner, Mohammed Jahirul Islam, agree to a consent decree recently barring them from distributing adulterated and misbranded supplements and unapproved and misbranded drugs and requiring remedial action before restarting production. FDA records indicate its s inspections of the facilities began in 2010 and at least one GMP violation found in later inspections was noted in the first.

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Not all the quality-control problems the Food and Drug Administration found in 2018 during its most recent inspection of ABH Nature’s Products Inc. were repeats, but one dated to the first inspection of the contract manufacturer in 2010 and others were noted since 2012.

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