Data integrity remediation is a critical activity performed by analytical laboratories, quality control laboratories, and manufacturing plants to comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and data integrity requirements. There are various challenges during this activity, and current GMP (cGMP) facilities struggle to comply due to technical limitations and resource constraints. This article examines the data integrity remediation challenges faced by cGMP facilities and ...

Over the last decade, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada (HC) have gotten better at disclosing previously confidential clinical data, a study published in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics has found.     However, each agency discloses this data in a variety of different ways, according to Alexander C. Egilman, with the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale–New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT,...

Issues related to data integrity have been in the news in recent years, often focusing on companies receiving citations from regulatory agencies regarding unreliable computer data. While the laboratory and computer data were the primary focus, data reliability in all formats and in all parts of the operation are critical to ensure products are reliable. While many also think this issue applies only to quality and operations, if the information listed in the regulatory doss...

This article reviews Chinese laws governing healthcare data and genomic resources during 1998-2021 and their impact on clinical research in humans by pharmaceutical companies. Companies conducting such research must be vigilant about complying with the complex legal requirements governing the research and identifying potential risks and mitigation strategies for compliance. The analysis includes review of various legal requirements issued by the People’s Republic of China ...

The COVID-19 public health emergency has prompted regulators to take a different approach to uncovering data integrity violations in virtual inspections compared to onsite inspections, said an official with Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The official also provided an update on the status of the EU’s good manufacturing practice (GMP) guide Annex 1, which addresses the manufacture of sterile medicinal products, at a 24 September panel discussion sponsore...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward in plans to modernize its data and information technology efforts with the launch of a new Office of Digital Transformation (ODT).   “Good data management, built into all of our work, ultimately helps us meet and advance the FDA’s mission to ensure safe and effective products for American families,” said acting FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock, in a Wednesday press release announcing the newest step in its te...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) recently issued two revised documents for its Manual of Policies and Procedures (MAPP): one addresses updated procedures for its data standards program and the other covers operational procedures for scientific interest groups (SIG).   The 10-page MAPP on data standards governance discusses the operating model to support the implementation of CDER’s data standards program. It r...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the EU’s Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have issued an ambitious workplan for a joint steering group to tackle issues related to big data in healthcare and medicines development.   The steering group’s 2021-2023 work plan, adopted in June and published Friday, “aims to increase the utility of big data in regulation, from data quality through study methods to assessment and decision-making,” according to EMA’s big data webpage...

Uses of real-world data and evidence (RWD and RWE) have proliferated in recent years, driven by advances in data-gathering tools and methods and enhanced understanding of the value of such data and evidence. Under the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, Congress codified RWD and RWE in the drug development and approval process. There are many opportunities for the use of RWD and RWE in the approval, labeling, clinical use, and marketing of medical products to enhance individu...

This week, the Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme (PIC/S) announced that its new guidance on good practices for data management and integrity for pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors has come into effect.   When authorities inspect facilities of manufacturers and distributors of active pharmaceutical ingredients to ensure good manufacturing practice and good distribution practice (GMP/GDP) compliance, “The effectiveness of these inspection processes...

Synthetic data are artificial data that mimic the properties of and relationships in real data. They show promise for facilitating data access, validation, and benchmarking, addressing missing data and under-sampling, sample boosting, and the creation of control arms in clinical trials. The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is using its current research into the development of high-fidelity synthetic data to develop its regulatory position on ar...

A three-pronged plan to modernize the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approach to data was unveiled Wednesday, building on the agency’s previous technology modernization effort.   In a blog post announcing the new Data Modernization Action Plan (DMAP), Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock and Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy write that data modernization is the “next step” for the agency after its 2019 Technology Modernization Action Plan (TMAP)...