Providence Reporter

There were 11 companies in cities associated with Providence County, Rhode Island, that received 11 FDA inspections in 2023, according to reports from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This is a 37.5% increase over the number of companies inspected in the previous year, when eight companies were inspected through nine inspections.

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

There were 10 companies in line with FDA regulations who don’t need to adjust their management operations or regulatory/administrative actions (90.9%). One should take voluntary action to correct the organization's management operations (9.1%).

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
A. B. Munroe Dairy, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	05/23/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Biomat USA, Inc.	Biologics	05/11/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Brown Urology, Inc.	Biologics	07/07/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Chi Foods, LLC	Food/Cosmetics	04/27/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Contech Medical, Inc.	Devices	08/17/2023	Voluntary Action Indicated (VAI)
Palagi's 2000, Inc.	Food/Cosmetics	05/26/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Peter A. Soukas, M.D.	Devices	10/27/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Providence Specialty Products, LLC	Food/Cosmetics	05/24/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Rhode Island Blood Center, A Division of New York Blood Center, Inc.	Biologics	03/07/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Richard Zienowicz, M.D.	Devices	06/29/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Women & Infants Hospital IRB	Biologics	08/18/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Women & Infants Hospital IRB	Devices	08/18/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)
Women & Infants Hospital IRB	Drugs	08/18/2023	No Action Indicated (NAI)