Any responsible business or industry takes quality seriously. It’s crucial to customer safety and satisfaction, and its prioritization in the development of healthcare products and services – especially pharmaceuticals – is obviously even more so. Nonetheless, it can be easy in development for smaller teams and companies to overlook some components of Quality, despite governmental requirements around complex quality initiatives. Those concerns are well-founded.
The FDA opened an expedited IND pilot, tightened scrutiny of foreign trial data, and finalized a rule recognizing non-animal testing methods. In Europe, the EMA advanced pharmaceutical legislation reform, restricted 2 legacy products, and opened an injectable-iron safety review.
Ron Scarboro, Azurity Pharmaceuticals, explains why real-world usability belongs at product definition and how post-launch feedback should guide drug formulation.
Gene manufacturing platforms, patient-centric formulations, contract services, packaging innovations, and sterile filling lines are in the spotlight at CPHI Milan 2026.