New Standards for Excipient GMPs

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Date May 27, 2015
Time 12:30 PM EDT
Cost $287.00
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Most drugs contain 70-90% excipients, which serve as taste-maskers, glidants, anti-oxidants, flow aids, binding agents or other purposes that facilitate the manufacturing process and improve chemical stability. The globalization of the pharma industry, combined with a regulatory focus on preventing counterfeits and adulterated products has created a need for a comprehensive excipient quality and control standard.

Now NSF International, the American National Standards Institute, and the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas have released the final version of NSF/IPEC/ANSI 363-2014, the first American National Standard for good manufacturing practices of pharmaceutical excipients.

Currently voluntary, the FDA was deeply involved in its development, and IPEC-Americas, ANSI and NSF are petitioning the FDA to adopt it as official guidance or regulation.

The standard covers everything from cross-contamination to change control, recordkeeping and equipment maintenance. It advises conducting risk assessments in order to determine the need for risk mitigation strategies. Such an assessment by the quality unit should identify materials and services that could affect excipient quality and track that status from delivery to customers.

Excipient makers must also establish a process for tracing excipients to the finished drug maker. Furthermore, they need to have a documented system for selecting, approving and reapproving their suppliers, as well as defining how they will assess changes and alert clients, and creating procedures to handle customer complaints.

No matter where you are in the supply chain, the new excipient standard is crucial knowledge to make sure quality controls prevent your product from being at risk.

In this one-of-a-kind 90-minute webinar, attendees will learn:
  • 9 requirements for certifying every batch of excipient passes cGMP requirements
  • What documentation sponsors should expect from suppliers when they change sub-suppliers
  • 6 key procedures for auditing suppliers to assure they are complying with NSF/IPEC/ANSI 363-2014
  • Best practices for working with suppliers to assure proper and timely reporting of customer complaints
  • What should you do if your suppliers are not ready by the proposed Q3 deadline?
  • The latest on if/when the FDA might adopt this as official guidance
Who Will Benefit:
• Compliance Officers
• Manufacturing Directors and Supervisors
• Pharmaceutical and cGMP Auditors
• QA/QC Personnel

Conference Details:
New Standards for Excipient GMPs:
Analyzing the Impact of NSF/IPEC/ANSI 363-2014
**FDAnews Webinar**
May 27, 2015 — 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT

Easy Ways to Register:
Online:      www.fdanews.com/NewGMPStandards
By phone: 888-838-5578 or 703-538-7600

 

 


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