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A Confluence of Forces Is Now Spurring Combination Product Regulatory Reform in Europe

A confluence of forces is intensifying the pressure on and opening pathways to the reform of drug/device combination product regulation in Europe, with legislative changes and strategic priority needs at issue.

Part I: EU Pharma Strategy Roadmap, Comments from Industry, and Related Agency Strategies

Part II: Culture/Structure/Process Change and Global Alignment

Part III: HPRA CEO Lorraine Nolan on HPRA and EMA Strategy

Part IV: EMA’s Zaïde Frias and NB/Industry Perspectives on EU Regulatory Transformation

IPQ Monthly Update – May 2021 in Review

The pressing need during the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate product development and rapidly accommodate the shifting manufacturing and distribution demands has shed strong light on the constraints in the existing quality regulatory framework and the pathways to reducing them. The two-part feature story in this issue explores how the ICH Q8-12 efforts to evolve the lifecycle regulatory paradigm to be more transparent, internally coherent, knowledge and risk based, continuous improvement and supply friendly, and globally consistent have not yet been realized, and where the deeper solutions to the problems may lie.

IPQ Monthly Update – April 2021 in Review

The feature story in the April issue explores how regulators and industry are working together to make quality risk management (QRM) a more effective force in improving quality systems and the regulatory communication process at the review and inspections levels. The three parts of the story provide insights from: ● HPRA’S Kevin O’Donnell on the evolution of QRM and the revision now underway of ICH’s 15-year-old QRM guideline Q9, which he is leading ● FDA’s Rick Friedman, also on the Q9 revision Expert Working Group, on advancing aseptic processes through QRM, and ● industry/academia thought leaders on evolving QRM’s relationship with knowledge management across the product lifecycle.

Pandemic Urgencies Highlight Constraints in Manufacturing Change Regulatory Paradigm and Where Adjustments Are Needed

The pressing need during the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate product development and rapidly accommodate the shifting manufacturing and distribution demands has shed strong light on the constraints in the existing quality regulatory framework and the pathways to reducing them.

Part I: Industry Quality Leaders on the Global PAC Regulatory Problem and Solutions

Part II: Evolving the Quality Regulatory Paradigm at the Global Level

IPQ’s 2010-2021 Stories on PAC/QRM/KM Regulatory Dialogue

The following is a chronological listing of IPQ stories since 2010 that have covered the pressing issues around post-approval changes and what is needed in conjunction with advancements in risk and knowledge management to make quality regulatory processes across the product lifecycle more cohesive, efficient, process improvement and supply friendly, and internationally harmonized. 2010 ● […]

Regulators Are Exploring with Industry How to Strengthen Quality Risk Management Practices, with Revision of ICH Q9 a Key Focal Point

Regulators and industry are sitting down together to mine their experience and map out some clearer directions and expectations about what is needed to empower quality risk management (QRM) in improving the pharmaceutical quality system (PQS) and the industry/regulatory communication process at the review and inspection levels.

 

Part I: ICH Q9 Revision Lead O’Donnell on the Evolution of QRM

Part II: FDA’s Rick Friedman on Advancing Aseptic Processing through QRM

Part III: Industry/Academia Thought Leaders on the Evolving QRM/KM Relationship

IPQ Monthly Update – March 2021 in Review

The March issue provides a wealth of insights shared by FDA, EMA and PMDA biotherapeutic and vaccine regulators on the challenges, opportunities, and learnings as they have sought to support the accelerated product development and review called for by the pandemic, while assuring that CMC/quality standards are met and keeping up with their non-COVID-related workload. Included are updates on the guidances and other quality-related initiatives impacting vaccines and biotherapeutics that have been forthcoming during the first quarter of 2021.

Regulators Share Pandemic’s CMC Impact at CASSS Japan Forum; Guidance Output Continues Apace in Q1 2021

This four-part story explores the significant impact of the pandemic during 2020-2021 on the CMC review processes for vaccines and biotherapeutics at FDA, EMA and Japan’s PMDA in their efforts to support accelerated product development and review, while assuring that quality standards are met and the ongoing non-COVID-related workload addressed.

 

Part I: EMA Perspective

Part II: FDA CBER Perspective

Part III: FDA CDER Perspective

Part IV: Panel Discussion Among US, Europe, and Japan Regulators