Regulatory/GMP Compliance

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.

FDA is revising its inspection process and seeks harmonization of standards for US and foreign regulatory oversight to ensure the safety of medicines.

FDA, innovator companies, and biosimilar developers maneuver over exclusivity, naming, interchangeability, and more.

More than 120 healthcare organizations plan to bring competition to generic drug market.

More consistent and reliable production processes are critical for advancing innovative treatments.

Detailed process descriptions and robust documentation aid in compliance as well as training, says Siegfried Schmitt, principal consultant at PAREXEL.

This study was successful in establishing a reliable and effective method for evaluating cleaning processes based on risk. Click here to view a PDF of this article.

The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is developing a new chapter for rapid sterility testing of short-life products based on the recommendations of a panel of experts and stakeholders.

The European Commission (EC) has approved GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on treatment for severe refractory eosinophilic asthma in pediatric patients six to 17 years old.

PDA Technical Report 80 (TR 80): Data Integrity in Laboratory Systems is the first in a series of three technical reports PDA will publish on data integrity.

The European Commission (EC) has approved Novartis’ chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) cell therapy Kymriah for the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy.

The Senate approved a $159-million budget increase for FDA, to bring its resources up to $5.4 billion for 2019, including more than $2 billion in user fees.

FDA sent a warning letter to Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd. after inspectors found data integrity problems at the company’s Yamaguchi, Japan facility.

Guidances for regulatory changes, batch testing, and reporting address situations resulting from “no-deal” Brexit scenario.

As a contingency against border delays resulting from a “no-deal” Brexit, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) directs pharma companies to stock extra medicines.