USFDA to up its India head count, denies targeting cos
The Dollar Business Bureau The USFDA, which has offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, is in the process of increasing its headcount in India to 19. Solomon Yimam, Assistant Country Director, USFDA India Office while denying that the inspections are targeted, said the frequency of audits of Indian facilities would depend on the number of product applications filed from that facility. "USFDA is in the process of taking the headcount up to 19. We have offices in New Delhi and Mumbai. We are in the process of bringing more (officials). Currently we have 9 or 10 (officials working in India)," Yimam said during an interactive session at BioAsia-2015. "First of all inspections are driven by marketing applications. So depending ...
