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Homeopathic Nasal Spray Firm Warned About Microbial Contamination Needs GMP Remediation

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA advises additional recalls of Green Pharmaceuticals’ SnoreStop NasoSpray could be needed. Agency’s testing showed a batch of SnoreStop NasoSpray is adulterated because “it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance.”

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The first US homeopathic firm to receive a warning since the Food and Drug Administration published a final guidance on regulating Rx and OTC products in the category likely would have attracted the agency’s scrutiny independent of the guidance.

The FDA Office of Regulatory Affairs’ Division of Pharmaceutical Quality Operations IV advised Green Pharmaceuticals Inc

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