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Product complaints (21 CFR 111.553)

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21 CFR 111.553 requires the quality control function to review every complaint involving a possible failure of a dietary supplement to meet any specification, with a written record naming the product, batch/lot, complaint nature, response, and the investigation outcome. The fi...

21 CFR 111.553 requires the quality control function to review every complaint involving a possible failure of a dietary supplement to meet any specification, with a written record naming the product, batch/lot, complaint nature, response, and the investigation outcome. The file is reviewed every FDA supplement inspection and is the upstream feed to the DSHEA Title II 15-business-day serious AER clock when injury is reported.

Regulatory anchors
  • 21 CFR 111.553
  • 21 CFR 111.560
How V5 handles it
QMS — quality records next to the work they concern.
Deviations, corrective actions and quality review sit in the same system as production, so each quality record references the work order, step and lot it concerns.
Document control — one version in force, every change signed and explained.
Draft the next revision while the current one stays in use, approve it under your sign-off route, and track training on it — with the history kept.
Score your compliance gap — then download the validation pack.
A guided self-assessment walks you against the regulator clauses that apply to your industry. The validation pack — IQ/OQ scripts, traceability matrix, risk assessment, intended-use statement — generates from the same evidence so you can hand it to an auditor on day one.
Audits whose findings reach an owner.
A finding is only useful if someone follows it up. V5 keeps findings with the audit, lets a person grade them under your rules, and links the follow-up to the corrective action that covers it.
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