Quality Control of Starting Materials (APIs and Excipients) - Live Online Training
5/6 February 2025
Course No. 21663
Speakers
Dr Reto Theiß
Merck Healthcare
Emerich Grassinger
Takeda
Veronika Käser
Merck Healthcare
All times mentioned are CET.
Objectives
It is the aim of this Live Online Training to give practical oriented advice regarding the testing of APIs and excipients. You will learn
who is responsible for the release or rejection of starting materials,
how the incoming goods lab can be organised efficiently,
which SOPs are necessary,
in which cases test results can be taken over from the supplier’s certificate of analysis,
whether or not all test items of a pharmacopoeial monograph have to be analysed,
whether the pharmacopoeial monographs are similar and in which cases different tests must be conducted for Ph.Eur., USP and JP,
when a pharmacopoeial test method can be replaced by an alternative test method and in which cases this requires a variation application.
Background
Testing active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients is one of the main tasks of the quality control units in the pharmaceutical industry. It must be ensured that the necessary tests are conducted on the incoming goods and that the starting materials are released only after their quality was judged as satisfactory.
This main goal can also be achieved by applying reduced sampling/testing. Apart from any guidance, it is still much up to the manufacturer to decide which APIs and which excipients might be subject of a reduced testing procedure.
However, since the quality of the substance has to be assured without compromise, multiple factors must be considered before the full testing of every single batch can be reduced.
Target Group
This Live Online Training is directed at all those employees from quality control units in the pharmaceutical industry, including heads of quality control and laboratory managers, who are competent or responsible for sampling, testing and release of the starting materials used (= APIs and excipients). This course is also of interest to personnel from quality assurance and to those employees from API and excipient manufacturers who want to inform themselves about the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry on the testing of these starting materials.
Technical Requirements
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Quality Standards: How to discern a good starting material from a bad one?
New requirements for excipients
Current GMP Requirements for APIs, Excipients and Drug Products
Relevant ICH guidelines
EU regulations for Drug Products and APIs
GMP for excipients – current expectations
IPEC (International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council) Guideline for excipients
EU GMP regulation for excipients
GMP aspects of supplier/manufacturer qualification
Challenge: risk assessment for excipients
Pharmacopoeias
Regulatory background
Pharmacopoeial institutions – Ph.Eur., USP/NF, JP
CEPs
Implementation of pharmacopoeial monographs in your laboratory
Multi-compendial testing
Validation of pharmacopoeial testing methods
USP General Chapter <1226> Verification of Compendial Methods
Laboratory Organisation
Role of the raw materials laboratory within the pharmaceutical supply chain
Optimization of the analytical laboratory with respect to costs, time and resources (economic order size, costs of analysis vs stock keeping costs, reduced sampling and reduced testing, ABC analysis)
Sampling of Incoming APIs and Excipients
Regulatory requirements
Reduced Testing
Sampling plans
Rational for representative sample and risk analysis
Training
GMP-compliant documentation of sampling operations
Practical examples
WORKSHOP I Sampling
Examples for generating sample procedures
Risk assessment and Rational for representative sampling
Calculating different optimizations (reduced sampling, reduced testing, economic order size)
Reduced Testing of Supplied APIs and Excipients
What guidance is available on reduced QC testing?
EU and FDA expectations?
Supplier qualification as a prerequisite
Other information required before you start reducing
Can APIs and excipients be covered within the same approach?
Who is in the driver seat, who must be involved?
Practical execution
WORKSHOP II Reduced Testing
Different approaches for reduced testing
Advantages and disadvantages
Considerations of actual guidances and their practicability.
Analytical Methods
Use and validation of non-compendial methods
How to proof comparability?
Advantages of instrumental methods versus visual methods
Handling of deviations (Out-of-Specification results and complaints)
Measurement system analysis
Documentation
Retests
Q&A sessions ensure interaction and that your questions are answered.
This course is part of the GMP Certification Programme "ECA Certified Quality Control Manager" Learn more
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