Article: Revalidation, microbe tests snare Geneva Labs.(Brief Article)

Annual revalidations and microbial tests for sterile products led FDA concerns in an inspection of contract testing lab Geneva Labs of Elkhorn, WI, but Minneapolis district inspector Charles Cote really had little to grouse about.

The seven-page EIR (the 483 was not released) documented a March 1999 audit in which the firm won a recommendation for approval by the district.

Cote wrote that Geneva performed its microbial tests per the USP standard and that the firm "validates each test article to ensure that it neither suppresses growth [n]or encourages false positive results." According to the EIR, the firm conducted annual revalidations for projects ...

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