GMP News - Pharmaceutical Development / Clinical Trials / GCP

In October, the EMA published a revised version of "ICH: Q 5 A (R1): Viral safety evaluation of biotechnology products derived from cell lines of human or animal origin" for consultation.

The EMA published a guidance for applicants / MAHs involved in GVP inspections. It includes a detailed list of documents to be provided to GVP inspectors.

Following the recently introduced new Ph. Eur. chapter 5.26 Implementation of pharmacopoeial procedures, the EDQM published some examples to provide users with practical guidance. How can the critical factors potentially affecting the analytical procedure performance be identified?

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.