That question was at the heart of the of ISPE’s “Expert Xchange: Regulatory Summit on ICH Q9 Revision” held 9 June 2022. Seventy-one participants from 14 countries discussed ICH Q9(R1) and received valuable insight from several members of the Expert Working Group (EWG) assembled in 2020 to lead the ICH Q9 revision process. Discussion centered on the current state of application of quality risk...
Over the past twenty years, an evolution of pharmaceutical development has resulted in new approaches to ensuring product quality and patient safety. The science and risk-based concepts outlined in ICH Q8-Q12 encourage a more holistic approach to the product control strategy. Under this paradigm, product quality should not be ensured by the quality specification, rather it should be confirmed....
Imagine a time where medicines are made at your doorstep, where an illness can be treated in moments, storage conditions are a non-issue, quality is built in, and supply chains don’t matter. Your COVID-19 vaccine is manufactured, tested, and available for dosing, all within blocks of your home. Welcome to the age of transportable manufacturing.
A technical working group under ISPE’s PQLI® Committee that is seeking to assist industry and regulators with implementation of ICH Q12 recently produced a webinar on
On 20 November 2019, the ICH Assembly endorsed the Q12 guideline, “Technical and Regulatory Considerations for Pharmaceutical Product Lifecycle Management,” at its biannual meeting in Singapore. This transformational guideline has a wide scope of applicability across pharmaceutical drug substances and products (both chemical and biological), drug-device combination products that meet the...
According to US Pharmacopeia (USP) Chapter <790>, “all parenteral products should be essentially free from any visible particles.”1 This is the first and foremost requirement stated in all pharmacopeia for any injectable product. However, yielding absolutely particle-free...
