Bracketing approaches are certainly allowed in the context of cleaning validation. First, for the products themselves, so that a "worst case" substance can be used for validation, second, for devices of the same design, the effort can be reduced by bracketing. In this way, a device can be selected. So how to define these "worst cases"? Read more here about FDA's view on this.
In July 2022, the U.S. FDA issued a Warning Letter to the U.S. American company "Jost Chemical Co." after having inspected its site in January 2022. The Warning Letter mentions the list of cGMP observations for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, ANVISA, published answers to questions received during a webinar on clinical research with medicinal Cannabis held in May this year. One of the important questions addressed is: How can batch reproducibility be demonstrated?
The FDA has published a report on the state of drug quality - and the results are mixed. However, if one takes a closer look, the reasons can be quickly identified.
The eSUSAR website used for the submission of SUSAR reports to the MHRA will be decommissioned at the end of September and only SUSARs via the ICSR Submissions portal will then be accepted.
The revised USP General Chapter <621> Chromatography is scheduled to be official on 01 December 2022. The Chemical Analysis Expert Committee has now announced that the implementation of the sections titled "Peak Sensitivity" and "Peak Symmetry" under "System Suitability" will be delayed.
Typically, the room humidity is also regulated and controlled in cleanrooms. For this purpose, the outside air is dehumidified in summer and humidified in winter, especially in dry cold weather, to ensure a minimum humidity in the cleanroom. So, how exactly is the room humidification for GMP-regulated areas carried out? What quality should the evaporated water or its condensate have? These questions are frequently asked and controversially discussed.
There are various directives and standards that define the air-tightness of rooms and their testing in different ways. For example, for the tightness of ventilation ducts there are the tightness classes A to D according to DIN EN 15727, which have nothing to do with the EU GMP cleanroom classes A to D according to Annex 1. VDI Guideline 2083 Sheet 19 lists leakage classes from 0 to 7. So, how tight do rooms or ventilation systems actually have to be for GMP production?
Due to a change in REACH, the Ph. Eur. is considering to replace the plasticiser DEHP and is therefore seeking information from manufacturers. The deadline for replies is 30 September 2022.
In March 2022 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published the ICH guidelines Q2(R2) on validation of analytical procedures and the ICH Q14 on analytical procedure development for public consultation. End of August, an overview of the comments received was provided.
The topic cross-contamination is very important in the GMP environment. For example, Chapter 5 of the EU GMP Guide was adapted in this regard a few years ago. Annex 15 also paid more attention to the topic with the 2015 revision. However, the topic is also an issue in the USA.
In the GMP rules there are many undefined terms, such as regular, adequate, etc. Inspection reports that interpret these undefined legal terms sometimes help here. In this case it is about insufficient process validation. What happened?
The continuous manufacture of medicinal products is a young, spreading type of modern pharmaceutical production. In contrast to classical batch manufacturing, these processes run continuously, i. e. dosing and product withdrawal run uninterrupted and are continuously monitored. A recent USP article discusses what release testing might look like.
After more than five years and two public drafts for comment, the European Commission this week published the final version of the new EU GMP Annex 1 "Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products". Learn more about deadlines and changes compared to the 2nd draft version for comment from 2020.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Form 483 to India-based manufacturer Sun Pharmaceutical following an inspection of its Mohali facility in August 2022. Among other observations, it came out that employees responsible for collecting samples did not enter the buildings where the samples were documented to have been collected. In other cases, based on building access records, the employee was in a different building at the time the sample was documented to have been collected.
We have already reported about information regarding medical devices available on the EU Commission's website. Recently, a chapter on in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) was added. Also, the EMA website has a dedicated page for medical devices. What can be found there?
In the follow-up to the pandemic situation, the FDA is still reviewing the manufacture and importation of hand sanitizers and identifying potentially critical hand sanitizers. This is shown by the warning letter issued to Guangzhou Orchard Aromatherapy & Skin Care Co.
With UK's exit from the EU (Brexit), a transition period also started with regard to medical devices. The MHRA has now published plans on how to proceed after this transition period.
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) continues its efforts to build out the <1079> series of chapters on Good Storage and Distribution Practices. But what is the current status?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Amazon for selling unapproved drugs for mole and skin tag removal that have not been evaluated by the FDA for safety, effectiveness or quality. Amazon has 15 working days to respond and explain the specific steps that were taken to address the violations. Otherwise, legal action may result.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to an over-the-counter (OTC) drug product manufacturer in Los Angeles. Several GMP violations were identified in the area of laboratory testing, stability program, and quality oversight. In a previous inspection in 2018, similar observations were made. Therefore, the FDA considers the executive management oversight and control over the manufacture of drug products as inadequate.
In May, the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) published their new Annex 13 "GMP for Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs)", which was incorporated into the Chinese GMP guidelines on July 01, 2022.
