GMP News - Regulatory Affairs

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has updated their document for reporting quality defects in drug products. Read more about the updated "Defective product report template".

The FDA recently published its final guidance on liposomes. Read more about the authority's guidance for industry on Liposome Drug Products.

To use an active substance in a form which ensures optimum processing is important for an efficient production process; but what does that mean for approval procedures? Read here how the FDA classifies active pharmaceutical ingredients in co-crystalline form during an approval procedure.

On 27 November, 2017, the EMA's Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC) published the HMPC meeting report about their 79. meeting held from 20-21 November, 2017. Learn more about the key issues discussed during the EMA HMPC meeting.

In December 2017, the FDA published a new draft guideline for homeopathic products. There is to be a more stringent and risk-based approach by which all products are to be recorded. Find out more about the new FDA requirements for homeopathic products.

Relating to the ongoing experiences in the marketing authorisation of ATMPs, the EMA published an updated version of their "Procedural advice on the evaluation of advanced therapy medicinal product in accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1394/2007".

At the end of last year, the FDA published a revision draft for their guideline "Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls Changes to an Approved Application: Certain Biological Products" which is supposed to take account of the current standards of risk assessment and the submitted data of past change notifications.