The World Health Organization Prequalification Team (WHO-PQT) said this week that it is no longer concerned about the quality of prequalified products made at Mylan Pharmaceuticals' Nashik, India site after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the site over quality system issues in April. Background FDA's warning letter raised fears that a suspension of production at the site, which produces 21 WHO-prequalified antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV/AIDs, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday added Indian active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturer Megafine Pharma's Nashik site in Maharashtra, India, to a list of foreign manufacturing sites banned from sending products to the US. Megafine, which was hit with an FDA Form 483 back in May at the site, produces 24 APIs for the US market , including for drugs intended to treat Alzheimer's disease, depression, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and over...