Quality Systems

Hospitals form not-for-profit drug company to combat drug shortages and high prices.

Regulations and industry guidelines focus on ensuring excipient safety by specifying risk assessments and shared responsibility.

Proposed guidance documents assist drug manufacturers in qualifying single-use systems for commercial drug production.

While more companies are embracing taggants, researchers are developing new technologies that will be extremely difficult to reproduce.

Manufacturers tackle regulatory and competitive issues to develop complex therapies and biosimilars.

Regardless of the phase of development and the level of GMPs being applied, there should be adequate controls and knowledge to assure patient safety, according to Susan Schniepp, fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates.

Drug manufacturers can improve use of quality agreements in contract manufacturing.

The President described US drug costs as unfair and stated that prices will come down.

Federal agencies have partnered to develop a roadmap that offers a new framework for the safety testing of drugs and chemicals without the use of animals.

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says FDA is committed to meet the challenges faced by the saline shortage during an aggressive flu season.

Chemical engineers and chemists each bring unique skills to API process development and optimization. Success depends on their close collaboration, at both sponsor and CDMO facilities.

CRLs put the brakes on drug development and damage corporate reputation and stock prices. Upfront investment and better sponsor oversight are ways to prevent them.

FDA and industry weigh broader use of prior knowledge in biotechnology testing and production.

The Fluent Gx Automation Workstation from Tecan is suited for a variety of clinical and regulated laboratory applications.

The revised Annex 1 on sterile manufacturing includes incorrect and ambiguous statements that must be fixed before implementation.

The agencies sent warning letters to several companies that the agencies say are illegally marketing unapproved products to treat opioid addiction and withdrawal.

The latest continuing resolution funds the government for three weeks.

The FDA center released its list of planned guidance documents for the rest of the year.

The agency is sending a survey out to pharmaceutical companies in the UK to gain information on their preparedness for Brexit.

Non-essential activities and new regulatory submissions are on hold until a federal government funding agreement is reached.

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.

FDA is monitoring the IV fluid shortage occurring due to Hurricane Maria and is asking companies to submit data for the possibility of extending expiration dates.

The US Government Accountability Office released a report stating that FDA should make its plans to release guidance regarding nonbiological complex drugs public.

The agency has expanded the indication of AstraZeneca’s anti-cancer drug to include treatment for breast cancer with a certain inherited genetic mutation.

The two agencies have launched a program to develop safe and effective medical products to be used by American military personnel.

Labels must have special features to prevent tampering of pharmaceutical packaging.

The agency is requiring safety label changes to limit the use of prescription opioid cough and cold medicines in children younger than 18 years old.

The European Commission has approved AstraZeneca’s benralizumab, a monoclonal antibody for treating severe asthma.

Will Alex Azar’s experience in the pharmaceutical industry help or hurt the initiative to keep medications affordable?