GMP News - Analytical Quality Control

During its 172nd session in March 2022, the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission adopted a revised version of general chapter 5.21. Chemometric methods applied to analytical data to be published in Ph. Eur. Supplement 11.1 and be effective as of 01 April 2023.

Also in March, the list of available reference standards, which comprises more than 3.000 substances, was revised - and the resulting changes, innovations and updates were listed in the newsroom of the EDQM website.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new Warning Letter to an American drug manufacturer. The company retested failing lots with unvalidated test methods until passing results were obtained. Other deficiencies concern the cleaning validation, the stability program and HPLC data integrity.

During an inspection, FDA inspectors look closely at how quality control handles analytical data that deviates from the specification. Find out what is important to consider when handling OOS results, verifying test methods and checking electronic data.

The EDQM has launched a survey on whether the test for oxidisable substances for sterilised water for injection (Sterile WFI) in the European Pharmacopoeia should be changed to a test for total organic carbon (TOC). Read more.

In March 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a Form 483 to Cadila Healthcare’s sterile injectable manufacturing site in Jarod, India. Among other observations, it came out that the stability program is not followed to complete the testing within the predefined time frame. Some tests were even delayed by more than 120 days.

On March 24, the drafting process of the new ICH Guideline Q14 Analytical Procedure Development and the revised Guideline Q2(R2) Validation of Analytical Procedures reached Step 2, and both were published for consultation by ICH members.