{"id":3630,"date":"2016-07-20T16:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:21:45","slug":"fda-sends-stern-warning-to-glaxo-over-contamination-at-a-penicillin-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"FDA sends stern warning to Glaxo over contamination at a penicillin plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">G<\/span>laxoSmithKline is recalling a \u201csmall\u201d number of batches of\u00a0its Bactroban antibiotic following a harsh rebuke from US regulators about contamination at a key plant. The move comes after the US Food and Drug Administration sent a stern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ICECI\/EnforcementActions\/WarningLetters\/2016\/ucm511838.htm\" target=\"_blank\">warning letter<\/a>\u00a0late last month to the drug maker about a host of quality-control problems at the facility, which is located in Worthing in the United Kingdom. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/07\/20\/glaxosmithkline-fda-contamination-penicillin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) GlaxoSmithKline is recalling a \u201csmall\u201d number of batches of\u00a0its Bactroban antibiotic following a harsh rebuke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}