Healthcare

FDA: Pharmaceutical testing and brewing beer don’t mix

By Robert King
Published September 21, 2018 7:32pm ET
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FDA: Pharmaceutical testing and brewing beer don’t mix
Beer cans move down the production line at a microbrewery's canning facility. | (AP Photo/Johnny Clark)

A pharmaceutical testing laboratory brewed up some trouble with the Food and Drug Administration by sharing its space with a microbrewery.

The FDA issued a warning on Aug. 29 to Pharmaceutical Laboratories and Consultants for several manufacturing quality violations, the most notable of which was that the company’s testing laboratory was too close to a microbrewery.

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