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Article: Company To Suspend Production Of Eye Drops
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 30, 2005
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A manufacturer of eye drops and painkillers has agreed to stop
production at its California plant after the Food and Drug
Administration cited the company for safety and other problems.
The FDA announced yesterday that MBI Distributing Inc., also known
as Molecular Biologics, will no longer make or distribute its drugs
until it corrects the violations at its Benicia, Calif., plant. The
company agreed to these conditions in a consent decree that still
must be approved by a federal court, the agency said.
According to the FDA, the problems with the company's products
include:
Eye drops that are not manufactured according to national