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Cloud Computing: Content of a SLA/Contract with a XaaS Provider

Financial and organizational advantages speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 20: What should be the content of a SLA / contract with a XaaS provider?

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US FDA Warning Letter: Lab Data Integrity issues

In September 2024, the U.S. FDA issued a Warning Letter to the Indian company "MMC Healthcare Ltd." after having inspected its site in March 2024. According to the Warning Letter, the firm failed to have "appropriate controls to assure the integrity of electronic test data, such as an audit trail and defined user access levels".

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EDQM publishes New Chapter "Quality of Data" for Comments

The draft of the new chapter '5.38. QUALITY OF DATA' has been published on the website of the EDQM (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare) in the Pharmeuropa section and can be commented on until 31 December 2024, along with several other new drafts.

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FDA criticises Equipment Qualification and Process Validation

In a current Warning Letter, the FDA has criticised inadequate device qualification and deficiencies in process and cleaning validation. What does the FDA require?

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FDA Warning Letter on Data Integrity Issues

Data Integrity issues continue to be the focus of FDA inspections. The Warning Letter to the Dominican company Laboratorio Magnachem International was caused by significant data integrity problems with laboratory equipment, among other things.

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Cloud Computing: Workaround for non-compliant PaaS

Financial and organizational advantages speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 19: A non-(GXP-)qualified PAAS could change the versions of some of its generic microservices used by the application to be deployed as a GXP SAAS. Changing the versions of such generic microservices could be beyond the control of the SAAS provider. What would be required to make this scenario GXP-compliant?

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Cloud Computing: Validation performed by a CSP on its own - what is the Value?

Financial and organizational advantages speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 18: What is the value of a "validation" performed by a CSP on its own for the services it provides?

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Cloud Computing: Can an automated Deployment Chain replace an IQ?

Financial and organizational advantages speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 17: Can an automated deployment chain replace an IQ? If so, what information must the deployment chain provide?

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Cloud Computing: Consequences of different service models for Qualification / Validation

Financial and organizational advantages speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 16: What are the consequences of the different service models (IaaS / PaaS / SaaS / XaaS) for supplier management and the related qualification / validation?

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Cloud Computing: Validation of SaaS; who is accountable?

Financial and organizational advantages speak for the use of cloud services in the pharmaceutical environment. However, potential risks and regulatory restrictions should be known. Nine experts from industry and regulatory authorities answer an extensive catalog of questions from various topic areas. Question 15: Special considerations for validation of SaaS; who is accountable?

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