FDA 'Program Alignment' Means Inspections Consistency To Supplement Industry
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Reports are common about ORA officials not being knowledgeable about the agency's supplement manufacturing and marketing regulations or familiar with the commodity of dietary supplements, but relying on drug or food product manufacturing regulations when they inspect supplement facilities.
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