More Change With Less Hoopla To FDA Out-Of-Specification Investigations Policy
Executive Summary
Agency’s revised OOS guidance clarifies positions on outlier test results, averaging of HPLC results and some finer points around OOS questions. These could marginally improve compliance but won’t impact industry with nearly the force of the original 2006 guidance or the 1993 court ruling that preceded it.
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