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Regulatory Requirements for Safe and Efficient Biologic Drug Development
From the US perspective, there's a bunch of different guidelines on the FDA’s website you can look for, and you can also look on the European Union's website as well.
Looking at various Interna…
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Assessing Manufacturing Process Robustness
In 2011, FDA’s revised process validation (PV) guidance (7) extended ICH’s concepts to the pharmaceutical product lifecycle, an approach that is now being applied to cleaning validation and other area…
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Challenges in Analytical Method Development and Validation
Technologies, such as FDA’s quality-by-design (QbD) initiative, may have a positive impact on analytical method development and validation according to Paul Smith, EMEAI laboratory compliance producti…
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Good Manufacturing Practices: Challenges with Compliance
Obstacles to compliance
BioPharm: What challenges do you see in complying with FDA’s CGMP regulations for biopharmaceutical manufacturing?
Smith (Catalent): In general, it is not difficult t…
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The Importance of Partnering for Bioanalytical Studies
FDA has issued guidance documents detailing the scope of bioanalytical method validation required for PK/PD endpoints, but it is also important to consider other regional guidance documents (e.g., Eur…
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The Evolving Role of Starting Materials in Cell and Gene Therapy
Earlier this year, FDA issued a statement revealing that there are already more than 800 active cell-based or directly administered gene therapy investigational new drug applications (INDs) currently …
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Evaluating Surface Cleanliness Using a Risk-Based Approach
Cleaning validation regulatory guidance
FDA’s 1998 cleaning validation guidance document focuses on general aspects and qualification of the cleaning process (1). The design and post-validation mo…
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Bioburden Control in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Up-to-date lists of product recalls due to contamination by objectionable microorganisms are provided by FDA (1). The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)—under FDA—provided a comprehe…
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Efforts Accelerate to Streamline Postapproval Change Process
FDA and other regulators have sought to address these issues by encouraging industry adoption of continual improvement and quality-by-design approaches, along with change management protocols and life…
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Aseptic Processing: Keeping it Safe
Aseptic processing has garnered some increased scrutiny from FDA in recent years, primarily because it is considered a high-risk activity by the agency, says Rainer Newman, consultant at Aseptic Proce…