Compliance

All drug products, homeopathic and allopathic alike, must be safe and effective. That means they have to be manufactured correctly, containing only the ingredients and potencies they claim to have. In short, all drugs must comply with Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP). It is not only FDA’s responsibility to ensure these medications fulfill the CGMP requirements of safety, identity, strength, quality, and purity—it’s the industry’s responsibility, too.

Risk. It’s a hot word in the homeopathic industry right now. Even before the FDA issued its draft guidance, the agency used a risk-based approach to site inspections. With the 2012 Safety and Innovation Act, the agency nixed a set inspection calendar and began visiting manufacturers “in accordance with a readm more…

By Mary Beth Watkins and Eric Foxman   The array of substances used for homeopathic drug products is wide and varied. Many homeopathic starting materials also have uses outside of our industry and might be familiar by their common English names. We’ve reformatted “Drug Facts” panels to give you several readm more…

By Mark Land, AAHP President   Although the term might not be familiar, you may have been fooled by “slack-fill” as a consumer of many types of products at one time in your past. It’s the difference between the actual capacity of a container and the volume of the product readm more…

If so, they must comply with both CPSC and FDA requirements. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Requirements CPSC is responsible for enforcing the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). Introduced in 1970, PPPA is intended to protect children, under five years of age, from unintentional exposure to household substances. PPPA features readm more…