Archives for August 26, 2008

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FDA warns Sandoz on unvalidated manufacturing

By Gareth Macdonald

The FDA says that Sandoz, the generics arm of Swiss drug major Novartis, failed to validate manufacturing processes used to produce metoprolol succinate ER tablets at its plant in Wilson, North Carolina.

Equateq bullish about lipid API market

By Gareth Macdonald

A facility operated by fatty acid specialist Equateq on the island of Lewis in Scotland has met with UK good manufacturing practice (GMP) standards for the production of lipid-based APIs for the drug industry.