How many companies in cities across Suffolk County received FDA citations in 2024?

There were 21 companies in cities associated with Suffolk County that received FDA citations as a result of 22 inspections conducted in the county throughout 2024, according to reports from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This is a 4.5% decrease from the number of companies cited in the previous year.

Of the 113 citations issued, the most common citations include:

• You did not exclude pests from your food plant to protect against contamination of food.
• Appropriate controls are not exercised over computers or related systems to assure that changes in master production and control records or other records are instituted only by authorized personnel.
• Your firm failed to establish adequate written procedures for production and process controls designed to assure that the drug products have the identity, strength, purity, and quality that they are purported or represented to possess.

Most of the companies cited were involved in the Food and Cosmetics sector. The second most common type of company cited in the time period worked in the Drugs sector.

Of the companies cited, 21 should take voluntary actions to correct their managing operations. Additionally, one company had to take regulatory and/or administrative actions (4.8%).

The FDA routinely inspects facilities across the nation to determine if the workplace and their products are compliant with FDA-regulated laws and regulations implemented to improve overall public health. Inspection results are then disclosed publicly.

According to its website, the FDA is a government agency that is primarily responsible for monitoring the production and distribution of human and animal drugs, biological products, medical supplies and tobacco products for safety quality.