GMP News - APIs and Excipients

28.10.20

How to Demonstrate GACP-Compliance?

The requirement for a "written GACP declaration" is contained in the current draft of the EMA HMPC Guidance Document "Quality of Herbal Medicinal Products". However, some questions remain: Who creates the declaration and what does it look like?

23.09.20

Nitrosamine Impurities in Medicinal Products and APIs - the New FDA Guidance

The new FDA Guidance for industry reflects the current state of knowledge regarding nitrosamine impurities. Read more here about what measures the FDA expects from medicinal products and API manufacturers to take to mitigate the risk of nitrosamine contamination.

05.08.20

Mexican API Manufacturer receives Warning Letter

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) explicitly explains the deficiencies in the area of quality control in its Warning Letter for the company "Signa SA de CV".

29.07.20

ASMF: Two API Manufacturing Sites Listed - Only One to Be Registered?

This is now also possible for ASMFs and the procedure is clearly described in the updated Q&A document of the CMDh.

29.07.20

FDA Warning Letter to Homeopathic Product Manufacturers due to Quality Issues

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.

22.07.20

FDA Warning Letter: Lack of Lab Data Integrity

Once again, the lack of laboratory data integrity, beside other observations, caused the issuance of a US-American FDA Warning Letter and resulted in deficiencies mainly focused on the solvent recovery processes.

01.07.20

New GDP Monograph for Active Substances published

The Good Distribution Practice for Active Substances Guidance on interpretation and implementation has been published as a joint publication of the ECA Foundation's GDP Association and the Pharmaceutical Quality Group of the Chartered Quality Institute.

24.06.20

FDA Warning Letter for Canadian Drugmaker - HPLC and Data Integrity in the Focus

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.

18.06.20

CEPs: What Applicants and Authorisation Holders should know!

Due to the corona pandemic, many processes and regulations are currently in change - information regarding the current procedures for applying for CEPs is listed on the EDQM website.

16.06.20

Outsourced Activities in the GDP Environment: When is a Contract necessary and what Aspects should be covered?

Many transport services in the distribution and supply of medicinal products are carried out by external logistics service providers, and also other activities in the GDP environment are often outsourced. In this context, the question arises in which cases it is necessary to sign a Technical/Quality Agreement, which regulatory requirements apply, and which aspects should be covered in such an agreement.

27.05.20

FDA Warning Letter: Lab Data Integrity still in the Focus

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).

06.05.20

New Ph. Eur. Chapter on Essential Oils

The general Ph. Eur. monograph on Essential Oils has been published for comment in the recent issue of Pharmeuropa together with a proposed new Ph. Eur. chapter 5.30. Monographs on essential oils.

22.04.20

FDA Warning Letter: No Compendial Methods established? Develop appropriate Testing Procedures by yourself!

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to a Romania-based manufacturer of an unapproved new drug due to, among others, releasing drug products without conducting identity and strength testing.

15.04.20

FDA Warning Letter: Incoming Analysis of Raw Materials - Performing only an Appearance Test is not enough

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Warning Letter to a Danish drugmaker for serious GMP violations, including inadequate testing of finished products. Furthermore, the company failed to conduct at least one test to verify the identity of each component of a drug product.

01.04.20

Shredding Key Documents and Leading Investigators to Incorrect Rooms - An unusual FDA Warning Letter

FDA Warning letters often refer to insufficient documentation, missing validations, inadequate training, employees not following procedures, or similar cases. But shredding documents and leading investigators to incorrect rooms during an inspection is rather unusual.

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