Quality Systems

Aging populations and increased access to healthcare translates into opportunities for biopharmaceutical companies.

Keith Moore, vice-president of analytical services, Metrics Contract Services discusses gains use in dissolution testing.

The EU’s key objectives include improving medicines access, tackling drug shortages, and increasing administrative efficiency in its regulatory framework.

FDA and industry seek a more consistent, flexible CMC review process for breakthrough therapies.

The agency is seeking industry input on product-specific recommendations to facilitate generic drug development.

Amgen announces FDA will review the company’s BLA for ABP 501.

On Jan. 27, 2016 FDA announced it plans to review Merck’s investigational antitoxin prevention bezlotoxumab.

Baxter has voluntarily recalled lots of IV solutions due to potential container leakages and particulate matter.

The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare announces the publication of a chemometric methods chapter in the European Pharmacopoeia.

FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research publishes a list of upcoming new and revised guidance documents for 2016.

FDA issued a warning letter to Chan Yat Hing Medicine Factory for CGMP violations.

Abbott’s Compounding Pharmacy voluntarily recalls sterile products due to lack of sterility assurance.

The European Pharmacopoeia rewrites in its general chapter on Raman spectroscopy.

BioMarin Pharmaceutical announced FDA issued a complete response letter to dirsapersen, disclosing that the NDA was not approved.

The denial marks a setback for Amgen, who’s Humira biosimilar ABP 501 is the first submitted to FDA for adalimumab.

FDA issued a warning letter to Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., as a result of inspections that took place on March 2–7, 2015 at the Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, API manufacturing facility.

A US district judge entered a consent decree of permanent injunction on behalf of FDA, between the United States and pharmaceutical company, Downing Labs.

FDA approved 45 novel new drugs in 2015, the highest number of approvals since 1996 and second-highest ever.

The Office of Prescription Drug Promotion issues all-time low number of violation letters in 2015.

FDA issues a Warning Letter to Cadila Healthcare Limited for cGMP violations.

The company has voluntarily recalled one lot of magnesium sulfate in water for injection because of incorrect labeling.

FDA discusses a new program that allows pharmaceutical companies to submit proposals for new manufacturing technology.

Baxter voluntarily recalls two lots of intravenous solutions due to particulates.

More “me-betters” and more focused breakthroughs could enhance new drug development.