Thakur: Data Integrity Requires Stronger Local Enforcement
This article was originally published in The Gold Sheet
Executive Summary
There is a better answer to India’s data integrity crisis than putting 19 American inspectors there to enforce U.S. standards in country of a billion people. India’s own inspectorate needs to step up its game, says Dinesh Thakur, who nine years ago first alerted FDA to the problems at one firm, Ranbaxy.
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