Confidence Beyond Compliance
Pharmaceutical batch sizes manufactured to support the NDA or ANDA license application are typically scaled up to larger batch sizes after approval.
FDA Scale-up and Post Approval Changes (SUPAC) guidance provides recommendations to product license holders on scale-up of the process and making a change to the site of manufacture or testing post NDA or ANDA approval. Scale-up activities should be managed under the Pharmaceutical Quality System (ICH Q10).
Also, current regulations and FDA Technology Transfer best practice standards demand that any transfer of a technology as required to support SUPAC to the CMC documentation, is managed under the Pharmaceutical Quality System.
PharmaLex’s team of experts, which includes a number of former EU regulators, have the experience and expertise to provide support services to your scale-up operations, including:
- Working with Technical Services, Validation, Manufacturing Operations and Regulatory to
- identify changes to the manufacturing process, equipment, or site of manufacturing or testing to scale-up the batch size
- assess the changes required as Major, Moderate or Minor, in accordance with regulatory guidance
- advise on regulatory filing procedures based on the category of the changes, i.e. For US, Prior Approval supplement, Changes Being Affected supplement or Annual reportable; for EU Type 1 or Type 2 variation
- advise your SMEs on validations and/or release testing to be performed in order to confirm successful scale-up (or down) of batch size, and any Technical Transfer activities employed as part of the scale-up process.
- Providing guidance and support on preparation of scale-up documentation, including protocols which
- define the scale-up activities
- assign roles and responsibilities
- document performance of validations and/or release testing to confirm successful scale-up (or down) of batch size, and any Technology Transfer activities employed as part of the scale-up process
- apply Risk Management principles to the scale-up operation
- describe performing the scale-up under the management of the Pharmaceutical Quality System, including management of documentation, change control, deviation investigations and CAPA management
- require appropriate sign off/approval by relevant parties and by Quality on completion of the scale-up protocol
- and scale-up reports, including associated records of actions taken or conclusions reached as part of the Scale-up activities
- Providing support in the management of scale-up projects, whether within-site or inter-site, and incorporating Technology Transfer activities, to
- ensure that the key milestones of the project are identified
- ensure that the challenges to the scale-up process are identified
- ensure the application of Quality Risk Management to the process
- ensure that the scale-up process is completed effectively, efficiently and meets regulatory expectations and compliance.
Providing training on scale-up activities in compliance with GMP and regulatory guidance.
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