GMP News - Analytical Quality Control

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published new or updated product-specific guidelines for the demonstration of bioequivalence.

Colored glass containers are usually used to contain light-sensitive drug products. A previously issued USP Stimuli Article on the measurement of the protective properties of colored glass containers has now been republished. The article provides proposed maximum allowed specific transmission values for colored glass containers.

The EDQM has published a new edition of the Guide for the elaboration of monographs on herbal drugs and herbal drug preparations. The Guide provides general guidance on the structure of Ph. Eur. monographs of herbal drugs and herbal drug preparations and on the information to be included in them. In addition, principles for the preparation and revision of herbal monographs are explained.

The Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has revised the "Guidelines for Comparative Dissolution Test". A new version dated 18 May 2023 was published.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a Form 483. During an inspection at an Indian drug manufacturing side, several CGMP violations were documented. These concerns, among others, Out-of-Specification (OOS) and Out-of-Trend (OOT) investigations, where results were invalidated by retesting the batches without a scientifically justified root cause.

Since the beginning of May 2023, the chapter <2> Oral "Drug Products - Product Quality Tests", which is part of the heading "General Tests & Assays", has been published for comments on the website of the Pharmacopeial Forum of the USP. Comments and remarks on this draft, which is based on the previous version from August 2020, can be submitted until 31 July 2023.

In the Pharmacopeial Forum, PF 49(3), proposals of revised USP General Chapters <782> Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy and <1782> Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy - Theory and Practice were published for comments.