To all of our readers – Have a happy holiday season and a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year. The Lachman blog will be taking a break over the holiday starting Friday, December 21st (unless something extremely urgent occurs) and I hope that all of you will rejoin me in the New Year as […]
Whether you are into tofurkey, real turkey, ham or whatever floats your boat, all of us at Lachman Consultants want to take a moment to wish you and yours a happy Thanksgiving. At this time of year, we all need to take stock (no pun intended) of our family and friends and realize that, while […]
The key to developing a practical approach to all phases lies in the establishment of Critical Quality Attributes (CQA) for the drug product and assignment and monitoring of Critical Process Parameters (CPP) that have a direct effect on the performance of the process with regard to the CQA. At the PDA Annual Meeting last week, Scott Bazzone, Senior Manager of Quality Assurance Validation at Pfizer presented the approach that is used there with regards to establishing the risk significance or Z Score of a CPP to the CQA.
On Monday, April 20, 2015, the afternoon prior to the ISPE Quality Metrics Summit, Lachman Consultant Services will be presenting a training session on Data Integrity. The training session will be held in the Severn 1 meeting room of the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore (the same hotel as the ISPE Quality Metrics Summit), and will be followed by Q&A and a networking reception.
On Monday, April 20, 2015, the afternoon prior to the ISPE Quality Metrics Summit, Lachman Consultant Services will be presenting a training session on Data Integrity. The training session will be held in the Severn 1 meeting room of the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore (the same hotel as the ISPE Quality Metrics Summit), and will be followed by Q&A and a networking reception.
On Monday, April 20, 2015, the afternoon prior to the ISPE Quality Metrics Summit, Lachman Consultant Services will be presenting a training session on Data Integrity. The training session will be held in the Severn 1 meeting room of the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore (the same hotel as the ISPE Quality Metrics Summit), and will be followed by Q&A and a networking reception.
Last week while waiting for my flight home at an airport on the east coast, I decided to look at the recalls listed on the CDER web page. I realize that I have read about a number of recalls of parenteral products recently and those recalls were for a number of different firms, but what caught my attention was that 12 of 25 recalls listed were for visible particulate matter (including glass particles).
While I am not a manufacturing expert by any stretch of the imagination, I started to wonder why this might be.
If you think the just-issued prior approval supplement (PAS) Draft Guidance was complex, wait until you read this one! Entitled “ANDA Submissions – Amendments and Easily Correctable Deficiencies under GDUFA”, the document:
An on-site hiring fair is being held in Bethesda as posted on the FDA web page today. So if you are tired of your current job and would like to work at the FDA for a lot less money – then this job fair is for you.
CDER published its yearly Guidance Agenda today giving the industry a look at what to expect for the coming year in terms of issuance of documents. This yearly exercise, while not guaranteeing that all of the guidance will actually be completed, provides a nice look into the important topics that CDER is planning to expound upon for the benefit of transparency.
