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The Role of the LPPV in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Navigating Local PV Responsibilities in DACHL (Part 2)
As we continue exploring pharmacovigilance (PV) requirements in the DACHL region, this second part of the blog series covers the local roles and obligations in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. While part 1 focused on Germany and Austria, this post highlights the unique regulatory landscapes of these...
ASTM E2500 – Risk-based testing has been in play for several years now. By design, there is a significant opportunity to avoid many lifecycle costs without creating an adverse impact to quality or...
Cleaning Validation and GMP reviews of those protocols are challenging. They become even more challenging at a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) where compliance assessments to in-house...
Where are the Numbers? Coding Test Results to Enhance the Analysis of Qualitative Data
Introduction A key prerequisite activity for any successful process validation is process characterization. Process characterization involves varying process inputs such as raw material properties,...
Continued Cleaning Effectiveness: What Are You Doing? - Part II
My last blog focused on the industry trends concerning cleaning validation verification. Through a quick poll we found that out of twenty-three respondents, approximately fifty (50) percent are doing...
Outsourcing Facilities and GMP: The Quality Systems Challenge
Compounding is a practice in which a licensed pharmacist, a licensed physician, or, in the case of an outsourcingfacility, a person under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist, combines, mixes, or...
Continued Cleaning Effectiveness: What Are You Doing?
Recently I was asked by a client whether they should continue to do Re-Qualifications or change to Continued Process Verification on their qualified cleaning circuits. To answer this, the factors to...
FDA Prepares for GDUFA Commitments with Controlled Correspondence Guidance
With the implementation of GDUFA, FDA defined the rules and specific protocol for submitting controlled correspondence to the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) in a draft guidance published on August 27,...
Environmental Monitoring: The Top 3 Points to Consider
When a biopharmaceutical company builds new or renovates existing manufacturing space, the last consideration before turning the production key is the environmental monitoring of the same. This short...
On September 23, FDA released a report regarding “Standardizing and Evaluating Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)”. This fulfills FDA’s PDUFA commitment to issue a report of findings...