GMP News - Validation

The term Design Qualification is not used in the current FDA Guidance on Process Validation. However, it is addressed that the design of a facility plays a role within the scope of a qualification. Moreover, in a current Warning Letter the FDA criticizes design deficiencies in a water system.

In September the ECA offered the first Cleaning Validation Online Training Course - with many questions for the speaker. The ECA would like to share a selection of these Q&As on Cleaning Validation with the community.

The FDA has recently issued a Warning Letter to criticize, among other things, the lack of revalidation at a pharmaceutical manufacturer. At first sight, this seems surprising, as it replaces stage 3 of the process validation lifecycle, the Continued Process Verification, the periodic re-validation that was common in the past (exceptions are made in the sterile area). What are the reasons for FDA's request?

Since at least the end of the 80s, equipment qualification has been an official expected standard. In the meantime, electronic documentation systems have been widely used. Nevertheless, pharmaceutical companies often still work with paper, especially in the field of equipment qualification. Would it not be possible to use more qualification documents electronically? This is something we wanted to find out from you. 14 questions were asked to give an overview of this topic.

In June, the Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention/Cooperation Scheme (PIC/S) re-issued document PI 052-1. What is in it?

The topics data integrity/audit trail generate a multitude of questions. Current questions are addressed in a loose sequence of News. Question 8: What is the procedure for devices with standard audit trail functions if only a fraction of the data is relevant for the audit trail review?

On 14 April 2020, the Brazilian regulatory authority ANVISA published a new guideline for the validation of computerised systems which is to replace the guideline of the same name from 2010. Find out more about the main contents and further developments here.