Warning Letter: Failure to Comply (s6876c)

• Failure to adequately validate manufacturing processes with a high degree of assurance, and approve and document the results of the validation activities, to ensure that product specifications can be consistently met, as required by 21 C.F.R. § 820.75(a). Specifically, your firm has not validated the milling process and documented the validation results to ensure that the brass rounds are correctly milled to patients’ programmed [redacted] files [redacted] codes).
• Failure to revalidate manufacturing processes in response to changes or process deviations, and document the results of the revalidation activities to ensure that product specifications can be consistently met, as required by 21 C.F.R. § 820.75(c). Specifically, your firm has not documented the results of the revalidation of the milling process after your firm repaired a loosened bushing on the tooling plate and [redacted] without established procedures in place for implementing these changes.
• Failure to establish and maintain procedures for verifying or validating, approving, and documenting changes to a specification, method, process, or procedure, before implementation, as required by 21 C.F.R. § 820.70(b). Specifically, your firm has not established written procedures describing how changes to your milling process are to be verified or validated, approved, and documented.

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