Clinical Research Solutions
Mergers, Acquisitions and Consolidations: Whose Validation Standards Do I Use?
If you are like the majority of those who have worked in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry for at least the last five years, your company has been part of a merger, acquisition or some...
FDA Sets A Deadline For Electronic Submission Of Drug Applications
In a final guidance published in the Federal Register on May 5, FDA laid out the rules and specifications for providing regulatory submissions in electronic format. Perhaps more important than the...
You Were Off By How Much?
Many active ingredient assay failures can be attributed to weighing and charging errors incurred during the compounding process. Even when the active ingredient is weighed and charged correctly,...
Learn Your Lessons Well: How Regulatory Strategies and Clinical Trial Design Affect Approvability
A recent analysis by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development places the price tag of bringing a new drug to market at around $2.6 billion. The reason for this is simple: failure. Drugs...
Quality & Compliance
PMP: The Benefit of Quality Knowledge
There are thousands of drug manufacturers that have a number of ongoing projects within Operations. Often times, these companies seek experienced consultants to assist/guide them to project...
Why Are My Swab Recoveries So Low?
Cleaning Validation and GMP reviews of those protocols are challenging. They become even more challenging at a Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) where compliance assessments to in-house...
Where are the Numbers? Coding Test Results to Enhance the Analysis of Qualitative Data
Introduction A key prerequisite activity for any successful process validation is process characterization. Process characterization involves varying process inputs such as raw material properties,...
Clinical Research Solutions
Continued Cleaning Effectiveness: What Are You Doing? - Part II
My last blog focused on the industry trends concerning cleaning validation verification. Through a quick poll we found that out of twenty-three respondents, approximately fifty (50) percent are doing...
Continued Cleaning Effectiveness: What Are You Doing?
Recently I was asked by a client whether they should continue to do Re-Qualifications or change to Continued Process Verification on their qualified cleaning circuits. To answer this, the factors to...
Clinical Research Solutions
Environmental Monitoring: The Top 3 Points to Consider
When a biopharmaceutical company builds new or renovates existing manufacturing space, the last consideration before turning the production key is the environmental monitoring of the same. This short...
Clinical Research Solutions
Are you moaning about cleaning?
From time to time in this industry, you will hear someone bemoaning the fact that they have to do a cleaning validation. If this happens to be you, have no fear and remember the following five points...
Clinical Research Solutions
The Difference Between Quality and Compliance, Part II
In our previous blog, "The Difference between Quality and Compliance", I mentioned that there are recent initiatives underfoot that FDA hopes will create FDA-industry partnerships, increase...
Clinical Research Solutions
The Difference Between Quality and Compliance
In case you haven’t noticed, FDA is tired of being the “bad guy”. While they do not back-off of their responsibility to enforce the applicable Code of Federal Regulations for a millisecond, their...
Clinical Research Solutions
CMO Selection Process
Today, more pharmaceutical companies are turning to outsourcing their products as a strategic part of their business model. There are a number of drivers for this shift to soliciting the services of...
Who Owns Quality?
When it comes to the Healthcare industry (e.g. pharmaceuticals, medical devices, dietary supplements, etc.) who owns a company's Quality Assurance practices? Without a doubt the Quality organization...
Challenges When Qualifying a GMP Analytical Laboratory
Expanding an existing lab or establishing a new lab is an exciting time; new equipment, new facility, a fresh start. The key to having a successful laboratory qualification project is communication...