Rethinking Biometrics Resourcing in Modern Clinical Trials
Rethinking biometrics as a strategic function to improve consistency, scalability, and clinical trial performance.
Quality & Compliance
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...
Quality & Compliance
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...
Quality & Compliance
Outsourcing Facilities and GMP: The Validation Challenge
Compounding is a practice in which a licensed pharmacist, a licensed physician, or, in the case of an outsourcing facility, a person under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist, combines, mixes,...
Quality & Compliance
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...
Quality & Compliance
GAMP® 5 Concept 2 – System Life Cycle
So far in our series on GAMP 5 we’ve provided a high level overview of the five major GAMP concepts, and a more in depth discussion of Concept 1, Process Knowledge and Understanding. In this...
Quality & Compliance
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...
Quality & Compliance
The Cost of Inadequately Scheduling Cleaning Validation
Ever wonder why some—most—projects don’t go as planned? Let me take a chance at explaining what I have observed in the last few decades. Firstly, let us assume that you have contracted a well-known...
Assay Streamlining, Benefits and Drawbacks
As a biopharmaceutical company matures and new products are added to its portfolio, expansion of its facilities, systems and Quality Control is a natural outcome. The growth in the Quality Control...
Quality & Compliance
GAMP® 5 Concept – Process Understanding
In my previous blog I re-visited key GAMP® 5 concepts as they relate to establishing a compliant system validation methodology. My next few blogs will focus on each of these concepts in more detail....
Regulatory Sciences
Monoclonal Antibody Sameness - Effects on Orphan Drug Development
We note with interest FDA’s recently released Guidance for Industry: Interpreting Sameness of Monoclonal Antibody Products Under the Orphan Drug Regulations (April 2014). The guidance summarizes the...
Risk Assessments Mitigate Risk for Bigger and Smaller Companies Alike
Earlier this year, the Officer of Inspector General (OIG) put smaller life sciences companies on notice that they should put in place a risk assessment process as part of their corporate compliance...
Quality & Compliance
Outsourcing Facilities and GMP: A New Relationship
Compounding is a practice in which a licensed pharmacist, a licensed physician, or, in the case of an outsourcing facility, a person under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist, combines, mixes,...
Quality & Compliance
Post-Validation: Gate Nine of the Nine Gate Transfer Process
As the pharmaceutical supply chain evolves, at some point product/technology transfers will become part of the improvement process. When transferring production from site to site, an array of complex...
