Quality Assurance/Quality Control

Lonza Pharma & Biotech's's Modular Automated Sampling Technology (MAST) platform, which allows for the collection of up to 10 sterile sample sources for automated analysis in multiple analytical devices, won the CPhI Pharma Award 2017 for Excellence in Pharma: Bioprocessing.

The company has expanded its voluntary nationwide recall to include a second lot of Nexterone injection. This recall is due to particulate matter found in the product.

In a roundtable Q&A with biopharma executives, the vulnerability and challenges of dealing with extractables and leachables in single-use bioreactor bags are explored.

The company is voluntarily recalling product because of glass particles found in vials.

PharMEDium Services, LLC voluntarily recalled some lots of product because of a lack of sterility assurance.

Enterprise-wide processes, procedures, and systems are the keys to data integrity and peace of mind, according to Siegfried Schmitt, PhD, principal consultant at PAREXEL.

Process validation is an extension of biologics development processes.

A new algorithm uses a statistical approach to critical process parameter assessment, allowing for faster, more consistent, and less subjective critical process parameter quantification, visualization, and documentation.

The recall was initiated due to a product complaint in which white particulate matter, identified as mold, was discovered in a flexible bag from one batch.

The company is voluntarily recalling one lot of Pantoprazole Sodium for Injection 40 mg per vial because of glass particles found in a vial.

FDA sent a warning letter to Deserving Health International Corp. after inspectors found CGMP violations including failure to prevent microbiological contamination.

An increasing number of warning letters shows that FDA is observing more problems with pharmaceutical contract manufacturing.

SOPs need to reflect a company’s specific manufacturing or other operations, says Susan Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates.

Rinse sample analysis or visual inspection are risk-based approaches that can be correlated to surface cleanliness to replace surface sampling in a biopharmaceutical equipment cleaning process.

The company is voluntarily recalling one lot of NEXTERONE 150 mg/100 mL Premixed Injection because of particulate matter found in the solution.

Investing in a single source enterprise-wide LMS to fuel risk management and mitigation offers multi-dimensional return on investment.

FDA is exploring ways to keep branded drug companies from using REMS to block the development of generic drugs.

The level of formality in change control may be holding back your SOP progress, according to Siegfried Schmitt, principal consultant at PAREXEL.

The revised Akers-Agalloco aseptic risk assessment and mitigation method includes two sub-methods that can be used independently for risk assessment.

Creating a quality culture can prevent the costs and challenges associated with receiving a consent decree.

In Part I of this article series, the regression control chart method for identifying out-of-trend data in pharmaceutical stability studies is investigated, and an improved approach is suggested.

FDA published guidance on the format and content of REMS documents.

Focusing on whether the product meets its defined quality attributes should help one make reasonable, documentable, and defendable risk-based decisions, according to Susan Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates.

This article discusses fully automatic inspection of glass and plastic containers and factors that affect particle detection rate. 

Lawrence Yu, deputy director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), and his FDA colleague, Michael Kopcha highlight the importance of Six Sigma approaches to continuous improvement in the pharmaceutical industry.

The draft guidance gives recommendations for reproductive toxicity testing and labeling.

FDA sent a warning letter to Shandong Vianor Biotech Co., Ltd. that claimed the company failed to follow proper data integrity and quality control procedures.

Validation and batch testing failures were among the violations found by the FDA at the company’s Jiangsu facility.

The agency will offer $35 million in funding over the next five years, on research that aims to modernize manufacturing and quality assurance and control (QA and QC) practices.

Scientists at Scripps’ Florida campus showed for the first time that quality control steps exist in the production of proteins, which presents a target for anti-cancer drug development.