Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Susan J. Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates, and Rona LeBlanc-Rivera, PhD, principal consultant, Regulatory Affairs at Regulatory Compliance Associates, answer some questions about FDA’s January 2025 21 CFR 211.110 guidance document.

The Act is the European Union’s plan to avert drug shortages.

William Wainwright, business development manager at Iwata Label USA, discusses the practical security benefits of functional labels at INTERPHEX 2025.

The Omni ASCENT, officially launched at INTERPHEX 2025, is a next-generation off-site manufactured vertical utility solution aimed at optimizing the flexibility and efficiency of cleanrooms.

Sherwin-Williams’ advanced coating systems are designed to ensure safety, sterility, and efficiency in pharma manufacturing environments.

Being fully versed on the ins and outs of design quality can improve the project design phase life cycle.

The comment period for the Federal Register Notice, “Evaluating the Immunogenicity Risk of Host Cell Proteins in Follow-on Recombinant Peptide Products: Establishment of a Public Docket: Request for Information and Comments”, has been reopened by FDA until March 3, 2025.

In this first of a four-part series, the authors provide an introduction to a practical approach for establishing specification equivalence. The regulatory basis and compliance examples from FDA observations and warning letters are included to support the need for an effective process.

With so many personnel involved in the development and manufacture of pharmaceuticals, proper training of all staff is key to ensuring a quality product.

The $3.6 million investment will allow the CDMO to boost its advanced labeling, automated visual inspection, and fill/finish capabilities.

Pharmaceutical training programs are enhanced by integrating ICH quality risk management considerations.

Data governance, data integrity, and data quality are all widely used terms, but what do they actually mean and how are they connected?

This article presents an overview of FDA’s recent update to the guidance document, Control of Nitrosamine Impurities in Human Drugs.

Contract organizations offer assistance when managing changes to material suppliers during a product’s lifecycle.

Viral vectors and other complex biologic modalities require more specificity and higher sensitivity to detect and distinguish contaminants.

The growing use of continuous manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry merits a review of the application of dry cleaning and sanitization methods, especially for non-sterile oral solid drug product manufacturing of dry powders.

Manual and automated inspection technologies have their own advantages and limitations.

The US Pharmacopeia’s Microbiology Expert Committee approved the inclusion of a chapter into the United States Pharmacopeia–National Formulary that allows the use of non-animal-derived reagents for endotoxin testing.

Using one system for test execution and sample management, improving right-first-time, and allowing review by exception can deliver access to key lab data faster.

This paper reflects upon the past 15 years of experience in the application of QRM and KM within the pharmaceutical GMP environment.

Life sciences data sets can be vast and complex to process, but up to now bringing intelligent automation systems up to speed and validating them has felt debilitatingly onerous. Large language models tackle these barriers head on. Ramesh Ramani and RaviKanth Valigari, technology innovators at ArisGlobal, explain.

Here, Pavan Kumar Kunala from Almac Sciences runs through the different types of tests used to analyze drug substances to ensure quality and safety.

A statistical analysis for determining an expiration date can be applied to replicates or their corresponding averages as suggested in industry guidelines.

The final drug product relies on the quality and reliability of the raw materials used in its production.

Lonza’s Joe Garrity and Jerry Jiang discuss the importance of not only automating CGT manufacturing, but also standardizing across processes.

EMA is promoting the use of RWD in decision-making and has started a public consultation to review its draft recommendations.

A combination of rapid sterility methods with the industry standard compendial method should ensure maximum safety.

Determining E&L risk from single-use components can be used to build the level of extractable profiling and PERLs.

This study reviews changes in in-country testing (registration testing, import testing) requirements and analyzes current trends. In the context of international harmonization of good practices and standards as well as the improved information exchange between national regulatory authorities, in-country testing is considered outdated and redundant in many cases.

Digital transformation is allowing for better handling, analysis, and protection of vast data collection.