GMP News - Quality Assurance

The European Medicines Agency has published its final 'Road map to 2015', setting out EMA's role as a public-health agency. Read more.

The new EU Site Master File document and the revision of the PIC/S document PE 008 on the creation of a Site Master File implies profound changes for the Site Master Files author. These changes affect every pharmaceutical manufacturer as a Site Master File is the basis for the inspection by a regulatory authority. You can find a detailed comparison between the new EU / PIC/S Site Master File document and the draft of the EC Commission here.

The U.S. FDA launched a new website called FDA Basics for Industry. On these web pages a lot of information is provided about the FDA, its responsibilities, expectations and regulatory processes. Read more.

The EMA announced the adoption of ICH Q9 and ICH Q10 as Part 3 of the EU GMP Guide. ICH Q9 was already published as Annex 20 but ICH Q 10 was not published as an Annex yet. Click here to read more.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published two new draft documents for a template for the QP's declaration concerning GMP compliance of the API used as starting material and verification of its supply chain called "The QP declaration template". Read more.

The EDQM is strengthening its collaboration by signing  Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation (NIFDS), Korea Food and Drug Administration, and the Chinese National Institute of Food and Drug Control (NIFDC), respectively. Read more.

The Co-ordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures - Human, CMD(h), has published the latest version of its Practice Guides for the Submission and Processing of Variations in the Mutual Recognition Procedure. Read more.