Guidance

10
Nov

A New Approach to cGMP Inspections is Coming Soon. Our Contract Pharma Article Gives You a Preview.

Earlier this year, the FDA issued a draft Guidance for Industry titled “Alternative Tools: Assessing Drug Manufacturing Facilities Identified in Pending Applications Guidance for Industry.” The proposed Guidance uses a risk-based approach based on product quality or facility-related risks and will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the FDA. Are you among the many […]

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30
Oct

Our Recent Contract Pharma Article: Nitrosamines Progress from GRx+Biosims 2023 Conference

In case you didn’t have the opportunity to attend the GRx+Biosims 2023 conference or were there and want to revisit the featured panel on nitrosamine impurities, here’s a quick recap and a link to the full Contract Pharma article, authored by Jennifer Leaming, Principal Consultant, Lachman Consultants. Four presentations were made by FDA representatives on […]

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21
Sep

Is Your Supply Chain at Risk? Find out in our Contract Pharma article.

The “race to the bottom” for cost and the cumulative effect of “lean-out” global supply chains have had an unintended consequence for the safe, reliable supply of product. Third-party management has become a growing and recognized risk. And then there’s fourth- and fifth-party management. They are all-important parts of supply chain challenges in today’s increasingly […]

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11
Apr
FDA Guidance Snapshot Pilot Program - Lachman Consultants

CDER to Launch Guidance Snapshot Pilot Program

Those of us in the industry are usually reasonably technically savvy and can understand some of the more complex guidance documents that the FDA issues.  However, there are times that even those among us in the industry, depending on our individual academic tracks and professional experiences, whether regulatory, CMC, bioanalytical, pharmacokinetics, medical, and on and […]

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03
Mar

ICH Q13 – Continuous Manufacturing of Drug Substances and Drug Products

CDER has issued the final guidance, ICH Q13 Continuous Manufacturing of Drug Substances and Drug Products, which provides for the development, implementation, operation, and lifecycle management of continuous manufacturing (CM), applying to both drug substances and drug products for chemical entities, therapeutic proteins for new products, and conversion of existing products.  A copy of the guidance […]

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07
Oct

GDUFA III User Fees, Guidances, and MAPPs Published October 5, 2022

There is no question that GDUFA III has brought with it a lot of changes. OGD has begun issuing Guidances and MaPPs to reflect the changes and updating those document that were issued under previous iteration of GDUFA.  Rather than trying to paraphrase each Guidance and explain what changes have been made in the past […]

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06
Jun

FDA Withdraws Covid Q&A Document as the FDA Returns to a Semblance of Normalcy

In a Federal Register notice titled Effects of the COVID‑19 Public Health Emergency on Formal Meetings and User Fee Applications for Medical Devices–Questions and Answers (Revised); Withdrawal of Guidance (Docket No. FDA-2020-D-1138), which appeared in the prepublication section (usually meaning it will become official the next day but, because of the weekend, the final publication […]

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20
May

More PSGs Issued by OGD

Yesterday, the Office of Generic Drugs released twenty-four new and thirteen revised Product Specific Guidances (PSGs) with recommendations for conducting studies necessary to establish bioequivalence between test and reference products.  Of course, the revisions might spell trouble for applicants that have already commenced testing according to the original guidances, but this has been a bone […]

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