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Dr Reddy’s gets FDA warning letter for three API manufacturing facilities

This action follows the earlier inspections of these sites by the agency in November 2014, January 2015 and February 2015, respectively.

Dr. Reddy’s CEO G V Prasad said: "We take quality and compliance matters seriously and stand by our commitment to fully comply with the cGMP quality standards across all of our facilities. We will respond with a comprehensive plan to address these observations within the stipulated time-frame of 15 days.

"We will continue to actively engage with the agency to resolve these issues and we have also embarked on an initiative to revamp our quality systems and processes, as an organization-wide priority."

Through its three businesses – Pharmaceutical Services & Active Ingredients, Global Generics and Proprietary Products – Dr. Reddy’s offers a portfolio of products and services including APIs, custom pharmaceutical services, generics, biosimilars and differentiated formulations.