Anne Arundel Today

There were 15 companies in cities associated with Howard County, Maryland, that received 15 FDA inspections in 2023, according to reports from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This is an 11.8% decrease from the number of companies inspected in the previous year, when 17 companies were inspected through 17 inspections.

Most of the companies inspected were involved in the Food/Cosmetics sector. The second most common type of company inspected in the time period worked in the Biologics sector.

There were eight companies in line with FDA regulations who don’t need to adjust their management operations or regulatory/administrative actions (53.3%). Seven should take voluntary action to correct the organization's management operations (46.7%).

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.

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, according to its website.

Company Name	Area of Business	Inspection Date	Result
Advarra IRB	Biologics	09/15/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Advarra IRB	Devices	09/15/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Advarra IRB	Drugs	09/15/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
C. P. Food Products, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	09/29/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
Cantiniere Imports & Distributing, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	06/14/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Dai Hing Fat, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	03/29/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Eastland Food Corporation	Food/Cosmetics	09/22/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Eight P CPL, LLC	Food/Cosmetics	04/07/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
Hi-Tel Enterprise, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	09/28/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
Lancaster Foods, LLC	Food/Cosmetics	11/30/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
Lucky Fortune Cookies, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	10/12/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
National Delivery Systems, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	06/21/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.	Biologics	08/07/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Sapna Foods, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	09/19/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
Sun Belle, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	05/18/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Triangle Quality Foods, LLC	Food/Cosmetics	08/01/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
W B Mason Company, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	01/19/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)