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FDA Issues Two Guidance Documents on Food Allergen Labeling Requirements

The FDA Law Blog

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two guidance documents, one draft and one final, on food allergen labeling requirements. All packaged foods served or sold on transportation carriers (e.g., After reviewing comments, FDA will revise and move questions and answers to the final document, as it deems appropriate.

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Why Are FDA Inspections So Ineffective and Disappointing?

The People's Pharmacy

“The FDA said Global Pharma failed to use adequate, tamper-evident packaging and distributed the drugs without proper preservatives.” There have been problems with records in the past: deceit, falsification of documents and even outright fraud. This was around the time the whistleblower was discovering serious problems.

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CMC Requirements for New Drug Registration in Latin America

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Improvements have been observed by various regulatory agencies in Latin America for the acceptance and implementation of international standards—for instance, the ICH Common Technical Document (CTD) format. Additional required information beyond ICH guidelines, or non-value-added documents (e.g., 6, and 2.3.S.7 7 are required.

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Air Speed Qualification: At Working Position or Working Level?

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The setpoint for “proper” air velocity in cleanroom systems is documented in standards and regulations as 0.45 October 2004. But it is likely that interpretations in practice refer to footnote 5 from FDA Aseptic Guidance 2004: 7 “A velocity of 0.45 x, a free and open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package.

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Considerations for a Decentralized Manufacturing Paradigm

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4 , 5 Additionally, reducing shipping limitations—such as packaging, storage, and transportation durations—helps speed up patient access in certain instances while ensuring there is no negative impact to the product’s critical quality attributes (CQAs). September 2004. September 2004. 3 (2022):593–607. Guidance for Industry.

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Regulatory Landscape for Raw Materials: CMC Considerations

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In this article, the term “raw material” refers to a material used in the manufacturing and packaging of a drug substance (DS) or a drug product (DP). Finally, the DP is packaged in a suitable container to ensure continued quality. The absence of any of the listed documentation should be scientifically justified.

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Environmental Sustainability in Biopharmaceutical Facility Design

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4 The biopharmaceutical industry is taking steps to increase its environmental sustainability, 5 which begins with identifying and testing alternatives to existing procurement, materials, logistics, equipment, services, manufacturing processes, packaging, and facility design 6 (see Table 1). 7 An integrative (vs. 7 An integrative (vs.