GMP News - Counterfeit Medicines

The FDA has published a draft guidance which is to standardise the data traceability of products. Find out how long traceability data for products need to be stored according to the new FDA guideline "Standardization of Data and Documentation Practices for Product Tracing".

In October 2017, the ICMRA adopted recommendations on the implementation of Track and Trace (T&T) Systems to emphasise the importance of the complexity of these systems. This is relevant for regulatory authorities as well as for the pharmaceutical industry. Find out more about the ICMRA T&T recommendations.

Safety features, which will be mandatory in the future to put the Falsified Medicines Directive into practice, must be implemented by 9 February, 2019. The European Commission has published version 9 of their questions and answers on safety features in February 2018. Find more information on the EU's revised Q&A document on safety features.

The next version 8.0 of the catalogue containing questions and answers on practical implementation and technical aspects of serialisation requirements as per delegated act EU 2016/161 has become available on 22 November. Find more information about version 8.0 of the Q&A on EU FMD DR regarding serialisation.

The soon-to-be required safety features for the realisation of the Falsified Medicines Directive must be implemented by February 09, 2019. The German initiative securPharm strikes a positive mid-term balance. Read more on the securPharm press release.

The soon-to-be required safety features for the execution of the Falsified Medicines Directive have to be implemented by February 9th, 2019. The EMA has published an updated plan for the implementation of safety features on the packaging of centrally authorized products for human use. Read more about the EMA's implementation plan for safety features.

In March the CMDh published a new Q&A document to provide further guidance on the implementation of the EU Falsified Medicines Directive. Please find more information about the "CMDh clarifications on questions received on the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive".