Aurobindo Pharma gets EIR with VAI status from USFDA for Hyderabad facility

New Delhi, Feb 26 () Aurobindo Pharma Ltd on Wednesday said that it has received an establishment inspection report from the US health regulator with Voluntary Action Initiated (VAl) status for its Unit VIII manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.

"Further to our intimation dated November 6, 2019 with regard to the USFDA inspection of Unit VIII, API manufacturing facility at Gaddapotharam, Hyderabad, we would like to inform that the company has received the Establishment Inspection Report (EIR) with VAl status from the USFDA," the drug firm said in a filing to BSE.

According to the US health regulator, a VAI classification "means objectionable conditions or practices were found but the agency is not prepared to take or recommend any administrative or regulatory action".

USFDA issues an EIR to the company when an inspection is satisfactorily closed.

Shares of Aurobindo Pharma were trading at Rs 508.50 a piece on BSE, up 0.87 per cent from the previous close. SID DRR