GMP News - Aseptic / Microbiology

On November 1st, 2012, the MycoTOOL® PCR Mycoplasma Detection Kit-based test from Roche Applied Science was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for release testing of a  Roche biopharmaceutical product. More details here.

The Vice-Chair of the USP General Chapters – Microbiology Expert Committee, Tony Cundell, recently provided an update to the chapter’s revision process and what we should see when the draft is published in a future issue of the Pharmacopeial Forum. Read more.

The EMA/CHMP published an assessment report - on detected genomic fragments from endogenous and adventitious viral agents in live attenuated vaccines. More details can be found here.

The European Medicines Agency has today agreed on a number of precautionary measures to deal with manufacturing deficiencies which could affect the sterility of DepoCyte (cytarabine), an anti-cancer medicine used to treat lymphomatous meningitis. Read more.

The ECA Rapid Microbiological Methods working Group added new reports and articles to the literature list on its website . More can be found here.

Within FDA's scope - to review and, as necessary, update biologics regulations, to keep pace with technological developments and to boost regulatory science, the US authority published amendments to the sterility testing rule. Read more about the background and contents.