GMP News - Analytical Quality Control

In July 2018, the ECA Analytical Quality Control Group published version one of its guideline on Analytical Procedure Lifecycle Management (APLM) in support of the development of USP <1220> and the ICH revision of Q2(R2) and the newly proposed Q14.

USP´s Expert Committee for Botanical Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines proposes a new general chapter on Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids (PAs).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Washington Homeopathic Products, Inc. due to specific violations of CGMP regulations. These violations include failure to establish an adequate quality control unit, failure to conduct at least one test to verify the identity of each component of a drug product, and failure to establish and document the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility of test methods.

The recently published final assessment report of the CHMP describes in great detail the state of knowledge on nitrosamines in human medicinal products. All you need to know about risk assessment, calculation of limit values and analysis of nitrosamine contamination can be found in this document.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a draft proposal for revision in The International Pharmacopoeia. The document entitled DISSOLUTION TEST FOR SOLID ORAL DOSAGE FORMS will be posted on the WHO Medicines website. The deadline for comments is 31 August 2020.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently published a Warning Letter to a Canadian over-the-counter (OTC) drug producer. During an inspection, the FDA found significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP), including data integrity issues related to HPLC analysis.

The U.S. FDA issued a Warning Letter to the US American contract testing laboratory “International Trading Pharm Lab Inc” due to significant violations of cGMP regulations and the inaccurancy of electronical data for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs).