Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Kingston Pharma LLC received a warning letter after an FDA inspection found violations of current good manufacturing practices including inadequate quality control.

A US District Judge in the Southern District of Florida held that the US Stem Cell Clinic of Weston, FL and US Stem Cell of Sunrise, FL adulterated and misbranded a stem cell drug product made from a patient’s adipose tissue.

Although continuous approaches offer significant benefits for some products and processes, batch manufacturing is not going away any time soon.

The US Pharmacopeial Convention released new and revised standards for compounding nonsterile medicines, sterile medicines, and radiopharmaceutical drugs.

CDER’s KASA program seeks manufacturer data on drug attributes and risks to inform oversight.

A good working relationship between sponsor and contractor will become invaluable when an OOS occurs, says Susan J. Schniepp, executive vice-president of post-approval pharma and distinguished fellow, Regulatory Compliance Associates.

Quality and compliance depend on the right approaches to training, standard operating procedures, and validation. More tools are available to help ensure success.

Protecting the integrity of raw data is crucial to regulatory compliance and to proving that manufacturing and quality operations are being run and managed properly.

The company is voluntarily recalling Amikacin Sulfate Injection, USP, 1g/4 mL (250mg/mL), and Prochlorperazine Edisylate Injection, USP, 10mg/2mL (5mg/mL), to the consumer level because microbial growth was detected.

Violations found by FDA included a failure to test product for API identity and strength, failure to validate outsourced materials, and a lack of written cleaning procedures.

Inspectors found a lack of control over computer systems and a failure to follow equipment cleaning and maintenance procedures.

TraceLink will participate in the agency’s Pilot Project Program under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act.

The company is recalling the lots because of possible peanut flour contamination.

The agency is warning these manufacturers that they are putting consumers at risk with substandard manufacturing practices.

Leachable silicone oil may have an effect on large-molecule APIs, making it important to establish a robust analytical method to detect and quantify the substance.

Quality cannot be verified through testing, especially at the limit of detection, and no test method can confirm the absence of a microbe or particle.

The new guidance was issued to assist applicants in determining which abbreviated pathway to take for submitting marketing applications.

The new guidance document discusses reproductive toxicity testing and labeling recommendations.

FDA sent a warning letter to Dong Yuan Technology Co., Ltd. detailing CGMP violations including failure to follow laboratory and process controls.

The agency is updating its warning requirements for eszopiclone, zaleplon, and zolpidem after reports of complex sleep behaviors.

The company is recalling one lot of Mycophenolate Mofetil for Injection, USP because of glass fragments found in a vial after reconstitution.

A data exchange program between GE Healthcare and Amgen aims to improve biologics manufacturing through analysis of how raw materials affect the process.

FDA inspections can create uncertainty. Supervision of the contract manufacturer is crucial in ensuring compliance.

New agency leadership is pressed to promote innovation while addressing safety and quality issues.

We need to understand both sides when it comes to audits, says Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, vice-president, technical, PAREXEL Consulting.

Knowing the source and understanding the impact on CQAs is crucial to optimum drug formulation and processing.

More manufacturers are embracing MAM, which simplifies biopharmaceutical product quality testing, and facilitates the measurement and monitoring of critical quality attributes.

While the multiple attributes method gains ground and traditional lab methods improve, broad efforts are underway to determine biopharmaceuticals’ most significant critical quality attributes and enable real-time release.

The company is recalling one lot of Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection, USP, 60mg/2mL because of a lack of sterility assurance.

This article takes a look at current practices for cleaning and sterilizing biomanufacturing equipment used in a multi-product versus single-product setting.