US FDA Invites Warning Letter Follow-Up Inspection Alternative Proposals As Pandemic Persists

With inspectorate grounded by COVID-19, agency cannot clear remediated facilities or approve related applications – unless industry has a better idea.

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Drug manufacturers that have remediated serious quality problems identified during US Food and Drug Administration inspections will have to keep waiting until after the coronavirus pandemic subsides for the follow-up site inspections that could green-light resumption of site-related application reviews – at least for the time being.

With the FDA’s inspectorate grounded since mid-March for all but the agency’s most pressing “mission-critical” inspections, the pharmaceutical industry has...

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