Most of the 55 guidelines from the International Council on Harmonisation that relate to quality, safety and efficacy, as well as multidisciplinary guidelines, have been adopted among its 10 non-founding members and observers and 30 pharmaceutical companies, according to the results of a new survey.   The survey was designed to monitor the adequacy and level of implementation to ICH guidelines by regulators and industry and complements one released in 2019 on the adopt...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reopened the comment period on its draft guidance implementing the International Council for Harmonization’s (ICH) Q12 guideline on postapproval chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) changes for new and marketed pharmaceuticals and drug substances.   The additional time was requested by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).   FDA announced in a pre-publication notice in the 8 Septembe...

Members of the pharmaceutical industry want the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to align reporting categories with the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) Q12 guideline on postapproval changes while others seek clarity on how manufacturers can use postapproval change management protocols (PACMPs) to support a lower reporting category. Others wanted clarity on established conditions (ECs) as well as non-ECs, a core tenet of the guideline.   These industr...

The International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) on Tuesday issued its Q13 guideline on continuous manufacturing, making a draft available for public comment.   The long-awaited draft was soon expected, according to an FDA official who gave an update on the status of the guideline at a 14 July CMC Strategy Forum sponsored by the California Separation Science Society (CASSS). (RELATED: Long-awaited ICH continuous manufacturing guideline coming soon , Regulatory Foc...

The International Council for Harmonization (ICH) Q13 guideline on continuous manufacturing is expected to be released for public comment soon, as the US pharmaceutical industry continues slow but steady adoption of this mode of manufacturing.   Cyrus Agarabi, a reviewer in FDA’s Office of Biotechnology Products in the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, updated attendees on the status of the ICH Q13 guideline at the 14 July CMC Strategy Forum sponsored by the California...

Two forthcoming guidelines from the International Council on Harmonization (ICH) should make it easier to switch analytical methods for testing medicines post-approval and better manage lifecycle changes, said regulators and industry officials speaking Wednesday at the CMC Strategy Forum sponsored by the California Separation Science Society (CASSS).   At the meeting, an official from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and industry representatives provided a glimpse o...

Manufacturers leveraged diverse approaches to defining established conditions (ECs), a core tenet of the International Council for Harmonization’s (ICH) Q12 guideline for managing post-approval changes, in its recently concluded EC pilot program, said US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials at a recent meeting.   Christopher Downey, review chief in FDA’s Office of Biotechnology Products in the drug center’s Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, spoke of some of the...

This issue marks the 6th annual RAPS series on nutrition in health and disease management, and the gut microbiome, in which global experts write about food, nutrition, and dietary supplements from regulatory, trade, marketing, and legal perspectives. In keeping with the series, articles in the current issue examine US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory guidance and requirements, especially regarding dietary supplements, bioengineered products, probiotics, and CO...

Officials at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addressed plans to prioritize on-site inspections and gave updates regarding certain new drug applications during a generics-focused virtual town hall convened by the Drug Information Association (DIA) as part of its virtual annual meeting. During the session, regulators also shared post-pandemic learnings, including the importance of international collaborations for generic drug development.   The session inclu...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday opened a public consultation on the International Council for Harmonisation’s (ICH) S12 guideline on nonclinical biodistribution (BD) considerations for gene therapies.   The S12 guideline recently reached Step 2b of the ICH process after being endorsed at the ICH Assembly virtual meeting earlier this month. (RELATED: ICH reports ‘significant milestones’ reached on guidelines ranging from impurity testing to eCTD standa...

With the expanding globalization of drug development, regulations put forth under the International Council for Harmonisation’s (ICH’s) M10 guidance support the transition to a more harmonized industry. The draft guidance marks another step of integrating international expectations, in this case, as it applies to bioanalytical evaluations. This article examines the key elements of the M10 standard and recommends strategies for successful new drug or clinical trial applicat...

In a new effort to boost alignment of scientific and regulatory approaches to generic drug development among global regulators, the US Food and Drug Administration is standing up a Generic Drug Cluster.   Described as “the first forum established for the world’s leading regulatory agencies to address generic drug development globally,” the new cluster, wrote FDA, is meant to help harmonize approaches global regulators take to generic drug development through a variety ...