Regulatory/GMP Compliance

The agency is developing a new way to assess, record, and report data from surveillance and preapproval inspections of sterile drugs.

The new program will provide cell and gene therapy companies a more efficient way to ensure quality compliance across collection center networks and to minimize quality system audit burden on these centers.

Leaders of the two parties are open to challenging the status quo on drug costs and spending.

Permission from the United Kingdom's Supreme Court has been granted to the UK BioIndustry Association, allowing it to intervene in a dosage regimen patent case.

Building up relevant expertise in-house will make writing spec sheets for software easier, according to Siegfried Schmitt, principal consultant at PAREXEL.

Industry is searching for ways to deal with the criticality of ensuring data integrity.

Advanced therapy medicinal products pose unique manufacturing challenges that will require appropriate and thoughtful facility design and equipment.

Mock inspections-if conducted properly-can prepare a pharma company for the day FDA knocks on the door.

The agency, in partnership with international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, cracked down on 465 websites marketing illegal opioids and other drugs claiming to treat conditions such as cancer and HIV.

The recommended drugs include one biosimilar, two orphan medicines, and three extensions of therapeutic indication.

To achieve a more dynamic marketplace, FDA is issuingguidance documents and targeted advisories to support R&D on complex generics and combination products.

The contract development and manufacturing organization released its first serialized products to Europe from its facilities in Lisbon, Portugal and Stockholm, Sweden.

The guidance describes the agency's recommendations on how to group patients with different molecular alterations and approaches for evaluating the benefits and risks of targeted therapies where some molecular alterations may occur at low frequencies.

The new guidance, Rare Diseases: Early Drug Development and the Role of Pre-IND Meetings Guidance for Industry, discusses the planning of pre-IND meetings with FDA and sponsors.

Congress approves bills with provisions important to FDA and industry, some of which reflect continuing concerns about drug pricing and transparency.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has opened a consultation to seek views on how legislations and procedures of the agency may need to be modified should there be a ‘no-deal’ Brexit scenario.

Susan Schniepp, executive vice-president of Post-Approval Pharma and Distinguished Fellow, Regulatory Compliance Associates, takes a look at the regulations around data integrity and how they relate to the concept of quality culture.

Applied throughout a product’s lifecycle and across a company’s portfolio, quality risk management and knowledge management will enable more agile manufacturing and better quality standards in the future.

The agency sent a warning letter to the Indian company after an inspection found CGMP violations that included a lack of written procedures and analytical testing.

The sterile-manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization is approved by FDA for viral vector manufacturing fill/finish processing at its biologics facility in Scotland, UK.

The agency announced that differences in strength expression on product labels of compounders and conventional manufacturers may lead to dosing errors.

The agency has entered into an agreement with the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine and has expanded agreements with the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Centers for Regulatory Science and Innovation to conduct research on the compounding of drugs.

The European Medicines Agency’s detection of a second nitrosamine in a sartan API is driving a deeper dive into tetrazole chemistry; root-cause investigations will now include not only valsartan and losartan, but candesartan, irbesartan, and olmesartan.

The agreement now includes 15 European Union (EU) member states.

FDA sent a warning letter to Lernapharm (Loris) Inc. detailing the company’s lack of procedures to prevent microbiological contamination.