Industry Pharmaceutical Regulation

The FDA approved drugs of 2022

As the holiday is approaching, the list of approved drugs for this year can be finalized. Of the 32 drugs for 2022, there are 13 large molecules. The biological drugs keep the growing trend. Among these...
Industry Pharmaceutical Regulation

A glance at the current status of regulatory guidance for Bioanalysis

As the December of 2022, half year after ICH published the finalized M10 guidance, only EMA announced the adoption of ICH from Jan. 21st, 2023. FDA published notice of the finalized ICH M10. But FDA did...
Industry Pharmaceutical Regulation

How ICH Guideline Topics Are Named And Categorized?

If you are new to the regulatory guidance, even some peers in the regulated field for a while, it is still quite unclear what are the M10, S6, R2 means in ICH guidelines. So this article...
Chemical Pharmaceutical Regulation

What are Nitrosamine Impurities in Drugs

Nitrosamine, formally known as N-nitrosoamine, is a class of organic molecules with the above core structure. These type of chemicals are believed carcinogenic due to their potential as alylating reagents inside cells, which will cause cancer....
GLP Industry

Brief Introduction to Ten GLP Principles and How are they Audited

GLP is a quality system concerned with the organizational process and conditions under which non-clinical health and environmental safety studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded, archived and reported. While Good Laboratory Practices ( GLP ) in clinical studies...
Pharmaceutical Regulation

A Quick Guide for IND Application

How many types of FDA IND application? There are multiple types of IND application. Generally, your IND will be either 1) commercial or 2) research. It depends on whether it will be used to support marketing application afterwards. There are then three...
Pharmaceutical Regulation

A Quick Guide to FDA pre IND Meeting

What is a pre IND meeting with FDA? Pre IND meeting with FDA is an important step of IND application. An IND application is (a) sponsor(s) that submit the product’s data and information to FDA (Food...
cGMP GLP Industry Regulation

GLP VS GMP testing

For beginners to regulated pharmaceutical industry, GLP(Good Laboratory Practice) and cGMP(Current Good Manufacturing Practice) probably are the two most encountered regulatory standards. In some case, it may feel like very similar in terms of analytical testing....
Industry Regulation

FDA-Approved Radiopharmaceuticals

I am very interested in radiopharmaceuticals, so I posted several posts about it. And Recently, I am thinking about summarize the radiopharmaceutical that already approved safe and effective in treat disease. I found http://www.radiopharmaceuticals.info is a...
Sci&Tech

Basics of Radiopharmaceuticals

What is radiopharmaceutical? Radiopharmaceuticals include a group of radioactive agents used for either diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. Radiopharmaceutical therapy is defined by the delivery of radioactive atoms to disease-associated targets. But do not be confused with...