South Atlantic Industries
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Former exec pleads guilty in Greenville, S.C. federal court Sept. 24 to misbranding OTCs. Roger Perry was president of firm which purported to make generic cough syrup, cold formulas, liquid antacid and stomach remedies from March 1997 to March 1998, U.S. Attorney's Office in Greenville says. SAI produced drugs without proper actives and Perry "caused employees...to purchase similar generic products from drug stores or other retail outlets, repackage the products in South Atlantic Industries bottles and submit these as 'samples' of real products to potential customers and to independent laboratories for analysis," U.S. Attorney says. Perry faces up to five years in prison, $250,000 fine. FDA says SAI ceased operations following a 1998 injunction filed by the agency stemming from GMP problems