GMP News - Pharmaceutical Development / Clinical Trials / GCP

To facilitate FDA’s internal tracking of submissions that include real-world data (RWD), the agency published a guidance on how to identify the use of RWD in submission cover letters.

The FDA addresses inquiries from stakeholders related to Good Clinical Practice on an ongoing basis and has now published responses to questions received from 2017 to 2021. One of the interesting questions asks: Is it possible to have a Remote Location ("satellite site")?

The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, ANVISA, published answers to questions received during a webinar on clinical research with medicinal Cannabis held in May this year. One of the important questions addressed is: How can batch reproducibility be demonstrated?

In March 2022 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published the ICH guidelines Q2(R2) on validation of analytical procedures and the ICH Q14 on analytical procedure development for public consultation. End of August, an overview of the comments received was provided.

In May, the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) published their new Annex 13 "GMP for Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs)", which was incorporated into the Chinese GMP guidelines on July 01, 2022.

Documentation is an important element in the world of GMP. This applies to protocols as well as recording documents. For the field of development, the FDA is now offering a pilot program for a new function called "Snapshot" for their clinical and development guidelines. What's behind it?

The FDA published a new guidance on the readability of container labels and carton labeling design. What is the recommended font size?