Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   TGA Offers Advice on Managing Shortages Triggered by Ranitidine Recalls   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has advised physicians about how to manage the shortages created by recalls of ranitidine medicines. The notice follows decisions by eight companies to recall batches of ranitidine medicines in response to contamination concerns.   TGA firs...

As part of a project on emerging technologies, six regulators involved in the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) recently published a case study delving into the challenges of regulating 3D bio-printed products. In this hypothetical case, the regulators evaluated 3D bio-printed knee meniscus tissue and discussed how they would tackle similar products. The case study was conducted by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Bra...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   Australia Suspends Sales of Eight Breast Implants After Safety Review   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has suspended the sale of eight breast implants after finishing its review of the safety of the product class. The action gives affected manufacturers a chance to meet patient safety requirements, but TGA thinks there are likely grounds to perman...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   TGA Adopts Risk-Based Model for Fecal Microbiota Transplants   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has adopted a risk-based approach to the regulation of fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). TGA decided to treat FMT products as anything from Class 1 biologicals to Class 4 medicines after running a public consultation earlier in the year.   The model...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   Australia Aligns Sartan Rules to EMA as Singapore Finds NDMA in Ranitidine Drugs   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has aligned its requirements for sartan medicines with those adopted in Europe. The action coincided with news from Singapore about the presence of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), one of the key sartan impurities, in GlaxoSmithKline’s Z...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   TGA Seeks Feedback on Planned Changes to Medical Device Rules   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is seeking feedback on two sets of medical device proposals. The proposals address essential principles for safety and performance and the regulatory requirements for medical device systems and procedure packs.   Both documents grew out of the Austra...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   TGA Seeks Feedback on Plan to List Excipients in Drug Products Online   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is seeking feedback on plans to list the excipients in medicines online. TGA is considering enforcing the change to give consumers access to information about the products they consume.   Today, the public version of the Australian Register f...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   China Changes Stance on Fake Drugs and Online Sales in Legal Update   China has passed changes to the drug administration law. The revised law, which will come into force at the start of December, requires online sellers of drugs to comply with certain rules and increases the maximum fine for organizations that make and market counterfeit medicines.   The Nationa...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   India Seeks Feedback on Mandatory use of QR Codes on API Packaging   India is planning to require manufacturers to feature quick response (QR) codes on the packaging of locally made and imported active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The Indian government plans to implement the system at the start of April.   Through an amendment to the Drugs and Cosmetics Rule...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia. China Expands Medical Device Registration Pilot to Cover Multiple Regions   China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has expanded a medical device registration pilot project. The pilot project, which began in a free trade zone, will now cover 21 provinces to help NMPA accrue more experience of the medical device registration system.   NMPA is running ...

Welcome to our Asia Regulatory Roundup, our weekly overview of the top regulatory news in Asia.   TGA Reveals Recently Passed Order Faced Strong Industry Opposition   Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has revealed that parts of the medicines industry objected strongly to its recently adopted standard for tablets and capsules. The legislation came into effect in March despite big pharma trade group Medicines Australia arguing that, “It is unclear ...

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced Thursday that it’s considering a range of options to improve the generic medicine registration process. Chief among those options is TGA’s consideration to allow the use of overseas reference product in bioequivalence studies, as currently the reference product used in such studies must be an existing medicine approved in Australia. “Our requirements are largely consistent with comparable overseas regulator...