GMP News - APIs and Excipients

Just recently, we reported on a Warning Letter regarding a manufacturer who failed to conduct proper identity testing of glycerin and other high-risk components. The FDA has now published a whole series of Warning Letters that revolve around the same topic.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new Warning Letter. During an inspection at an Indian company, the FDA investigators observed several GMP violations concerning inadequate investigation of humidity excursions, data integrity deficiencies, and inadequate testing of component lots used to manufacture the OTC drug products.

As recently reported in our News, the Q&A document "Questions and answers for marketing authorization holders/applicants on the CHMP Opinion for the Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 referral on nitrosamine impurities in human medicinal products" has been updated again. The EDQM has now defined the resulting measures for CEP holders and listed them in its Newsroom.

Supplement 11.2 to the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph.Eur.) came into force on 01 July 2023 and contains several updated monographs. These include five updated excipient monographs, which now include the so-called "functionality-related characteristics (FRCs)" section. In total, there are now more than 100 Ph.Eur. Monographs that include this section.

Once again, the Questions & Answers documents with regard to centralised marketing authorisation procedures have been revised and published on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) website in June 2023. The Q&As, which can be used by marketing authorisation holders and applicants of centralised procedures, provide answers to possible questions at different stages of the centralised marketing authorisation application.

In June, the draft Certification Policy Document PA/PH/CEP(04) 1, 6R "Content of the dossier for CEP applications for chemical purity and microbiological quality of substances for pharmaceutical use" was published on the EDQM website for comments. Comments and remarks on this draft can be submitted until 15 September 2023.

The German draft bill on the controlled use of cannabis (German Cannabisgesetz - CanG) is available. Will cannabis now be removed from the German BtMG?