Good Distribution Practices News

The European GDP Association has now put together WHO's GDP documents to provide a better overview and easier access.

What do storage requirements like, for example "ambient", "room temperature" and "cold chain" exactly mean? Worldwide, there are different definitions for these storage requirements.

The EudraGMDP Database contains GMP and GDP Compliance and Non-Compliance reports. From January 2016 until today six GDP non-compliance reports have been published. Please read more about the GDP Non-Compliance reports.

In his talk on "Detection of Falsified Medicines and how the QP can support this", Paul Hargreaves (MHRA), explored some facts that a QP should know when it comes to the falsification of medicines.

To find out where the EU GDP Guidelines have been implemented already as a national rule ECA's GDP Working Group set up a survey amongst its members. Here is a summary of the feedback.

Based on the experience made in GDP inspections, the MHRA has published things to consider for the transportation and temperature management of refrigerated medicinal products.

The USP has proposed a new chapter as an addition to the Good Storage and Distribution Practices for Drug Products chapters, focusing on investigational drug products.