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GDP Non-Compliance Report for Belgian Wholesale Distributor

End of October 2022, the Competent Authority of Belgium (Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products) added a new GDP Non-Compliance Report to the EudraGMDP database. The authority blames the company in question for a whole series of GDP violations.

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Temperature Mapping for the Qualification of Storage Areas

In the Pharmacopeial Forum, PF 48(5), a stimuli article entitled "The Use of Temperature Mapping for the Qualification of Storage Areas for the Proper Temperature Storage of Drug Products" was published.

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Cloud Computing: What is the meaning of Iaas / PaaS / SaaS / XaaS?

Financial and organizational advantages also speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 1: What is the meaning of IaaS / PaaS / SaaS / XaaS?

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Vulnerabilities in global Supply Chains: Reasons and possible Solutions

The EU Commission has published a document on a "Structured Dialogue on the security of medicines supply". This document presents the most important results of the analysis of the security of supply and possible measures.

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EMA publishes ICH M11 (CeSHarP) for Comments

The EMA published the ICH M11 draft Guideline on the Clinical Electronic Structured Harmonized Protocol (CeSHarP) for comments. The comment period runs until February 26, 2023.

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Final FDA Guidance on Comparability Protocols

The FDA released the final guidance on Comparability Protocols for postapproval CMC changes. The revised guidance follows the draft version issued in April 2016.

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FDA Warning Letter for Chinese OTC Hand Sanitizer Drug Products Manufacturer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to a Chinese manufacturer. The FDA blames the company in question for a whole series of GMP violations, including to identity testing, cleaning and maintenance of equipment, microbial testing and QU oversight.

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Cross Contamination Risk: Production stopped

In April, the US FDA inspected a manufacturer of OTC products in Mexico. Due to the deficiencies found, in particular the unacceptable risk of contamination, the production was stopped.

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Sterile Product Manufacturing Process: Warning Letter to Texas Longhorn

After incomplete processing of defects listed in a 483, the Austin-based compounding manufacturer Texas Longhorn received a Warning Letter from the FDA.

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ICH Q5 A (R1) Revision: Viral safety evaluation of biotechnology products derived from cell lines of human or animal origin

In October, the EMA published a revised version of "ICH: Q 5 A (R1): Viral safety evaluation of biotechnology products derived from cell lines of human or animal origin" for consultation.

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