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Brexit: U.K. will become 'Third Country' according to EU Statement

The EU Commission and EMA made a clear statement that after 30 March 2019, the Unit Kingdom will become a 'third country'. Both expect marketing authorisation holders to prepare accordingly.

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European authorities' viewpoint on validation deficiencies

An article from April reported about the publication of inspection results by the British MHRA for 2016. Amongst other things, this publication addresses deficiencies concerning validation/qualification.

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How to inform EMA about GMP Problems or Data Integrity Issues

On 17 March 2017 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) released a new policy on the handling of information which has been received from external sources about serious concerns, e.g. related to GMP deviations or Data Integrity issues. Please read more about the EMA policy.

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New Analysis of GMP Inspections by MHRA

The British MHRA has published the 2016 GMP inspection deficiency data trend. The report lists interesting examples for all relevant chapters and annexes of the EU-GMP Guidelines.

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Serious FDA Warning Letter issued to European Manufacturer of Sterile Drugs, Part 3 - Data Integrity

As a consequence of significant GMP violations, the American FDA issued an unusually serious Warning Letter to a Hungarian company on 13 October 2016. Serious also because the authority put this company on import alert until the violations are corrected. Read more about the details concerning data integrity issues listed in the 2016 FDA Warning Letter to Teva Pharmaceutical Works Private Ltd. 

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How important is "Data Governance" for your Company?

In August 2016, the PIC/S published the draft of the Guideline "Good Practices for Data Management and Integrity". Here, organisational measures and controls are required to review and assure the effectiveness of the internal data governance system. Read more about the PIC/S requirements for the pharmaceutical data governance systems.

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Is Senior Management really responsible for GMP?

Yes, it is! As you can see in a recent case from Denmark, where the Danish Medicines Agency requires that the CEO of a repackaging facility needs to be replaced.

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New FDA Warning Letter for Wockhardt, Ltd. in India

The manufacturer of APIs and medicinal products Wockhardt in India received an FDA Warning Letter at the end of December 2016. During the inspection, it had been observed that both in GC and HPLC analytics OOS results were excluded from the official records. Get more information about the current Wockhardt FDA Warning Letter.

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GMP Update - what was new in 2016?

"You get the impression that GMP is developing faster and faster". During the past year, the world of GMP turned somewhat slower. Its developments in the GMP environment remain interesting though.

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New Warning Letter of the FDA with the Focus on "Data Integrity"

The FDA has set the focus of its inspections on data integrity for quite some time already. The most recent Warning Letter addressed to a Chinese API manufacturer dated August 2016 clearly concentrates on the topic data integrity. Please find out more about the current FDA Warning Letter in this News.

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