I was recently asked to compose a piece on regulatory updates impacting the Pharma industry across the last ten years in 400 words!!
The article has just come out in this months Contract Pharma (https://lnkd.in/ehcEnSsc)
Four hundred words was never going to be enough and the final edit maybe lack a few contextual nuances but hopefully it makes enough sense:
"There have been multiple regulatory changes impacting EU
GMP, including three chapter updates and six revised Annexes
published in Eudralex, new GMP Guidance for ATMPs, implementation
of 536/2014 (CTR), and one of the stars falling o
the EU flag as the UK left the European Union.
Keeping up to date has been a challenge these past ten
years, and within these updates some have proven more
diicult for the industry to adopt and implement than others.
For example, updates to the Premises and Production
chapters brought the need for toxicological assessments
based on health-based exposure levels, and corresponding
implementation where high potent drugs were manufactured.
In many cases, this necessitated manufacturing reconfigurations
or even facility remodeling to support contained/closed
systems.
Some of these updates were quite expansive. For one,
the revision to Annex 1 for Sterile Products with granularity
was nearly four times the length of its predecessor. There
was strong resistance to call for Pre-Use Post Sterilization
Integrity Testing (PUPSIT), with risk assessments often being
deployed. Annex 1 defines stringent criteria concerning where
risk assessments are possible, but in many cases, this is being
flouted, leading to contentious debates regarding PUPSIT’s
real-world benefits.
The UK’s departure from the EU also impacted the industry,
requiring supply chains to adapt to the new geographical borders;
consequently, the post-Brexit UK is free to make its own
laws and guidances concerning drug product manufacturing
and regulation.
Most recently we have seen the implementation of the Clinical
Trial Regulation (536/2014), whereby all clinical trials within
the EU must be registered with sponsors, per the transition
from the soon-to-be defunct Clinical Trial Directive 2001/20/
EC to the new Regulation."
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