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Neuland Laboratories said that the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) had inspected the company's manufacturing facility at Bonthapally, Hyderabad from 17 to 21 June 2019. The inspection has been completed with five observations given under form 483.

The company said that it has already initiated corrective and preventive actions for the observations and is confident of satisfying the FDA within the stipulated time. This is a regular surveillance audit by USFDA, and no data integrity issues were observed during the inspection, Neuland Laboratories said.

Neuland Laboratories' net profit fell 16.4% to Rs 6.73 crore on a 7.8% rise in the net sales to Rs 172.66 crore in Q4 March 2019 over Q4 March 2018.

Neuland Laboratories is a active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing service provider. The company's business is split into three core areas - Generic Drug Substances (GDS), Custom Manufacturing Solutions (CMS) and Peptides.