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# FDA Warns Trailer Park Drug Maker
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-warns-trailer-park-drug-maker/
- Published: 2017-10-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T22:58:17.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5139983

“Your firm manufactures drug products in a kitchen,” complains a 10/13 nine-page FDA Warning Letter to Ridge Properties owner **John Randall Durig** in a Salem, OR trailer park. “You use household kitchen utensils and cookware, including a steel pot, blender, and kitchen spatula to mix ingredients. Our investigator observed conditions and practices that increase the risk of your drug products containing harmful and insanitary contaminants. For example, you had a window open to the outside for ventilation during production …”

According to the [Warning Letter](https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2017/ucm581620?ref=fdaweb.com), signed by Irvine, CA District director of pharmaceutical of pharmaceutical quality operations **Steven E. Porter**, Durig’s business manufactures adulterated and misbranded untested nonprescription topical analgesic drug products labeled for treating bleeding wounds, bedsores, hemorrhoids and tattoo procedure pain. “We have not received a written response from your firm that provides corrective actions to the violations identified to you during the inspection,” Porter’s letter states. The inspection was conducted from 2/28 to 3/16.

It also lists violative label claims from various product Web sites allegedly maintained by Durig’s company, such as [this one for Tat Balm Gel](http://tatbalm.net/product/tattoo-numbing-gel-maximum-strength/?ref=fdaweb.com).

***FDA Webview*** found Durig’s [business location on Google Maps](https://www.google.com.mx/maps/place/4995+Ridge+Dr+NE,+Salem,+OR+97301,+USA/@44.9971155,-123.0015734,3a,75y,228.68h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sotmppvrXGMFl3sqqH0sOjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x54bffdfd9619c453:0xe68b53563a64cb2!8m2!3d44.9968443!4d-123.0020002?ref=fdaweb.com) with a picture of a building that looks like a domestic residence inside the gateway of a large chain-link fenced trailer park.