Good Distribution Practices News

Dr Afshin Hosseiny, who has been the European GDP Association's Advisory Board Chairman since its foundation, has decided to step down from this position. For this reason, Alfred Hunt joined as the Deputy Chair in 2021. After a year of the two working together, Alfred Hunt has now taken over the role as the Chairman.

The European Commission published a new version of the Questions & Answers (Q&As) regarding the safety features for medicinal products for human use. Is it allowed to verify the authenticity of the UI when the product is not in physical possession?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the comment period for the proposed rule "National Standards for the Licensure of Wholesale Drug Distributors (WDDs) and Third-Party Logistics Providers (3PLs)" to September 6, 2022. The FDA believes that this extension allows adequate time for interested stakeholders to submit comments.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) began a pilot programme for monitoring GMP and GDP activities, whereby approved consultants, so-called Compliance Monitors (CM), will supervise the completion of an agreed Compliance Protocol (CP). Consultants interested in being named as eligible to act as a CM for GDP (or GMP), have to fill out the MHRA "Compliance Monitor (CM) Application Form".

The area of responsibility of the Responsible Person for Good Distribution Practice is quite extensive. Therefore, the question arises which tasks actually have to be performed personally and which duties can be delegated.

The FDA finalized the guidance on voluntary recalls to help industry initiate prompt recalls of violative products. The guidance covers voluntary recalls of drugs, devices, biological products, food, cosmetics and tobacco products.

The Incoterms rules are frequently used in international and domestic contracts. In this article, you will get an overview of the Incoterms 2020 and their meaning.