Regulation and compliance – Page 3
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ArticleHow ready are you? Preparing for the impact of EU GMP Annex 1 on primary packaging
This feature partnership covers how pharma companies can ensure they are end-to-end compliant with Annex 1 for their primary packaging via a robust CCS.
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ArticleEuropean Pharmaceutical Review Issue 4 2024
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 4 includes articles on regulation, bioproduction, environmental monitoring, packaging and drug delivery.
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ReportPharma Horizons: Biologics
European Pharmaceutical Review’s latest Pharma Horizons report provides insight on key developments in pharmaceutical biologics for drug development, pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality control.
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ArticleAre we set for the revised EU GMP Annex 1?
This blog is a summary of the key changes of relevance to primary packaging components seen in the latest iteration of EU GMP Annex 1.
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ArticleRegulating therapies for rare diseases – recent approvals
This article summarises some of the recent notable drug approvals in the EU and US, including a gene therapy and an enzyme replacement therapy.
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ArticleAlzheimer’s drug development roundup – July 2024
From exciting data on cell therapy and monoclonal antibodies, through to new regulatory developments, this article summarises some of the key developments within the Alzheimer’s therapeutic landscape over July.
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ArticleEndotoxin standards: reflection and recommendation
Dr Radhakrishna Tirumalai and Karen Zink McCullough reflect on the recent opportunity to update the user requirements document relating to reference endotoxin standards.
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ArticleBotanical drugs – what is the best way forward for regulatory and market approval?
Botanical drugs, also known as traditional herbal therapies, have long been used, but obtaining regulatory approval for these medicines, or therapies, is convoluted. Often manufacturers will market their botanical drugs as dietary supplements or traditional therapies, designations that require far less regulatory approval than marketisation as a drug. In this ...
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ArticleProdrugs: seeking perfection in an imperfect world
Balancing safety, efficacy and cost in drug development is challenging. Prodrugs offer potential solutions, but also introduce additional complexities, as Dave Elder explains.
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ArticleGuide to Data Integrity 2024
In this Guide to Data integrity articles explore the role of data integrity in CCS, AI and ML as well as biopharma manufacturing.
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ArticleQA/QC Microbiology In-Depth Focus 2024
This in-depth focus features articles on single temperature incubation, endotoxin standards and aseptic connections in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
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ArticleEuropean Pharmaceutical Review Issue 3 2024
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 3 includes articles on microbiology, downstream bioprocessing and drug development. Register your details now to download this exclusive content.
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ArticleDrug approval roundup – May/June 2024
This article highlights some of the key regulatory approvals granted in May and June in the EU and US so far this year, including for oligonucleotide and biologic therapies.
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ArticleBig potential for small molecule drugs in cancer treatment
With recent recommendation of Takeda’s fruquintinib by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), EPR spoke to Dr Sebastian Stintzing, Professor of Medicine, Head of the Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology (CCM) of The Charité University Hospital in Berlin and investigator on the FRESCO-2 trial, to find out more about ...
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ReportPharma Horizons: Cell and Gene Therapy
This report is dedicated to exploring some of the latest innovations in the cell and gene therapy space, from development and quality control, through to manufacturing and clinical trials.
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ArticleEffective data quality governance: challenging five common myths
It is a well-established expectation that regulatory processes will become increasingly data focused, which places a new urgency on data quality governance in the pharmaceutical industry. In this Q&A Steve Gens and Preeya Beczek present a pragmatic view of what is involved.
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ArticleAdvancements and knowledge gaps in ICH Q2(R2)
In this article, experts from USP’s Analytical Procedure Lifecycle Joint Subcommittee explore the latest advancements in ICH Q2(R2) guidelines on validation of analytical procedures and their implications for industry. They highlight areas that would benefit from additional guidance and compare how the latest ICH Q14/Q2(R2) guidelines align with US pharmacopeial approaches.
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ArticleUnder the microscope: Using recombinant reagents for BET
Veronika Wills, Associate Director, Global Technical Services at Associates of Cape Cod, Inc (ACC), discusses in-depth, motivations and strategies surrounding the use of recombinant reagents for bacterial endotoxin testing.
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ArticleEuropean Pharmaceutical Review Issue 2 2024
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 2 includes articles on cell and gene therapy, from supply chain and manufacturing to microbial testing.
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VideoWebinar: How Pfizer utilises Enzyme Indicator technology for bio-decontamination validation
Melanie Eggers is a Sterilisation Validation Project Support Engineer at Pfizer Belgium. In this webinar, she explains how Pfizer has adopted Enzyme Indicator (EI) technology for its VHP bio-decontamination procedures. She outlines the differences in EIs compared to more traditional Biological Indicators and the way in which Pfizer utilises the ...