Microbiology FDA 483 (Kilitch Healthcare) : Laboratory controls do not include the establishment of scientifically sound and appropriate specifications and test procedures

Observation

Laboratory controls do not include the establishment of scientifically sound and appropriate specifications and test procedures designed to assure that drug products conform to appropriate standards of identity, strength, quality and purity

Facility Type

Sterile Manufacturing

Firm / Company

Kilitch Healthcare India Limited

System

Laboratory Controls

Details

(1) Environmental monitoring and personnel monitoring data is not reliable because of the materials used to conduct tests.

(a) *** contact plates prepared in house did not have enough media to ensure the *** surface was above the rim all the way around the plate on 27 of *** plates observed on October 12, 2023. At the end of incubation, 8 of the *** plates showed desiccation of the media.

(b) Settle plates that had been exposed in the aseptic manufacturing were observed to have media that was desiccated and cracking.

(c) In house-prepared environmental monitoring media does not contain neutralizers. Spray disinfectants are used in the areas where monitoring occurs. On October 19, 2023, *** was sprayed directly over settle plates during the setup for batch ***.

 

(2) During sterility testing of sterile components by direct inoculation, the components were not observed to be completely submerged in the media.

Record Date

11/2023

FEI Number

3011853060

Country

India

Citation Type

483

Audit Duration (Days)

7

Investigators

Anastasia M Shields, Justin A Boyd
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