scholarly journals QUALITY BY DESIGN APPROACH: REGULATORY NEED, CURRENT, AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE

Author(s):  
AAYUSHI RAJORA ◽  
GURMEET CHHABRA

Quality by design (QbD) is utilized in the event of pharmaceutical processes to create certain predefined product quality. QbD ideas unit of measurement explained in International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) pointers Q8 (R1) (Pharmaceutical development), Q9 (Quality risk management [QRM]), and Q10 (Pharmaceutical quality system). ICH Q8 (R1) guideline defines QbD as “a systematic approach to develop that begins with predefined objectives and emphasizes product and methodology, understanding, and methodology management, supported sound science and QRM.” QbD approach studied the implications of various input variables (e.g. methodology parameters, and materials) of the merchandise development methodology, on the final word product (active pharmaceutical ingredient or drug product). The late QbD approach integrates the principles of QRM, and methodology analytical technology (PAT). QbD combined with methodology analytical technology (PAT) tools modify methodology management and increase assurance that the merchandise quality attributes unit of measurement achieved consistently. An integrated and risk-based approach for review of the merchandise development methodology is also a future need of the QbD plan. Although implementing the QbD approach is not a restrictive demand, restrictive agencies to supply flexibility in their pointers for producing that unit of measurement developed by the QbD approach. Rising trends embody the growing interest in quantifying and managing the impact of raw materials’ attributes variability of methodology and product, what is more, as a result of the event of retrospective QbD approaches in complement to simple QbD. Thus, the QbD approach is also a tool for developing worth effective and quality pharmaceutical products.

Author(s):  
Amitkumar J. Vyas ◽  
Jayshree P. Godhaniya ◽  
Ajay I. Patel ◽  
Ashok B. Patel ◽  
Nilesh K. Patel ◽  
...  

The control of potentially mutagenic and carcinogenic impurities in pharmaceutical products is key importance in evaluating carcinogenic risk to humans. The recent discovery of nitrosamine impurities in some marketed pharmaceuticals has increased the risk of their mutagenic and carcinogenic potential. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), nitrosamine is the chemical classified as a probable human carcinogen. Nitrosamine impurities are known to be mutagenic and carcinogenic, very small exposure of these impurities can lead to cancer. These impurities may be produced and get incorporated into drug substances or drug products by a reagent, catalyst, solvent, or raw materials used in the process of manufacturing. The presence of nitrosamine impurities in angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) drugs containing tetrazole ring has caused worldwide product recalls. The various regulatory authorities have published the press release or notice regarding the control of these impurities with the interim limit. In 2007, the European medicines agency (EMA) suspended the marketing authorization of Viracept, because of the presence of elevated levels of ethyl methane sulfonate, in the drug product. Validated analytical methods are used to identify and quantify these impurities to the trace level at a given interim limit.


Author(s):  
Kanteti V.R.N.S. Ramesh ◽  
Hemant Yadav ◽  
Omar Sarheed

Background:Pharmaceutical excipients are critical in the formulation of any dosage form. Not many additives employed in the drug product manufacture have properties, which meet the desired qualities that the finished product must have. Therefore, it is mandatory to mix the drug substance with other substances to overcome the deficiencies. As a result, almost all pharmaceutical products are mixtures of active pharmaceutical ingredient and additives. So, there is a compelling need of these substances and normally they occupy the major part of any drug product. Excipients are of different chemical categories that have varying physicochemical properties like solubility, miscibility and the nature and source of these materials vary. With growing number of pharmaceutical excipients and polymers, the question of evaluating their toxicity is becoming a complex issue. Many polymers and novel excipients are now available in the market and with their diverse chemical nature and different sources and presence of impurities and their adverse effects will further complicate the safety profiling of these excipients.Conclusion:This review article will discuss the unwanted biological activities of some commonly used excipients and issues of the supply of the pharmaceutical excipients that need to be highly regulated and monitored to ensure availability of quality and pure excipient compounds.


Author(s):  
Sundaramurthy Vivekanandan

Quality by design (QbD) is a systematic, scientific, risk-based approach to product development and manufacturing process to consistently deliver the quality product. In this chapter, application, benefits, opportunities, regulatory requirements involved in quality by design of pharmaceutical products are discussed. In quality by design approach, during development, the developer defines quality target product profile (QTPP) and identifies critical quality attributes (CQA). Critical process parameters (CPP) of unit operations which impacts critical quality attributes need to be identified to understand the impact of critical material attributes (CMA) on quality attributes of the drug product. Quality by design approach is defined in ICH guidelines Q8 – Pharmaceutical Development, Q9 – Quality Risk Management, Q10 – Pharmaceutical Quality System. This chapter describes the implementation of new concepts in quality by design like design of experiments to achieve design space, control strategy to consistently manufacture quality product throughout the product lifecycle.


This article presents the results of studying the impact of housing and feeding conditions on broiler chickens of Hubbard RedBro cross, as well as the quality of products obtained when using floor and cage content, in a farm. It established that when receiving a mixed feed of own production using feed raw materials grown on a farm without the use of pesticides, a statistically significant decrease in potentially dangerous substances for animal health is recorded. Compared with factory feed, it has reduced the content of pesticides by 14 times, and mercury and arsenic by 24 times, cadmium by five times, and lead by ten times. The results of the study of economic indicators of growing Hubbard RedBro cross broiler chickens, as well as the chemical composition and quality of carcasses, indicated that there was no significant difference between the floor and cell conditions of keeping. Still, the use of a diet based on eco-feeds contributed to a statistically significant decrease in the concentration of toxic metals in the muscles of the poultry of the experimental groups. As a result, it found that the use of the studied compound feed in the diets of broiler chickens increased the indicators of Biosafety and ensured the production of environmentally safe ("organic") poultry meat products.


Domiati cheese is the most popular brand of cheese ripened in brine in the Middle East in terms of consumed quantities. This study was performed to investigate the impact of the microbiological quality of the used raw materials, the applied traditional processing techniques and ripening period on the quality and safety of the produced cheese. Three hundred random composite samples were collected from three factories at Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. Collected samples represent twenty-five each of: raw milk, table salt, calf rennet, microbial rennet, water, environmental air, whey, fresh cheese, ripened cheese & swabs from: worker hands; cheese molds and utensils; tanks. All samples were examined microbiologically for Standard Plate Count (SPC), coliforms count, Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) count, total yeast & mould count, presence of E. coli, Salmonellae and Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes). The mean value of SPC, coliforms, S. aureus and total yeast & mould counts ranged from (79×102 CFU/m3 for air to 13×108 CFU/g for fresh cheese), (7×102 MPN/ cm2 for tank swabs to 80×106 MPN/ml for raw milk), (9×102 CFU/g for salt to 69×106 CFU/g for fresh cheese) and (2×102 CFU/cm2 for hand swabs to 60×104 CFU/g for fresh cheese), respectively. Whereas, E. coli, Salmonella and L. monocytogenes failed to be detected in all examined samples. There were significant differences in all determined microbiological parameters (p ≤0.05) between fresh and ripened cheese which may be attributed to different adverse conditions such as water activity, pH, salt content and temperature carried out to improve the quality of the product.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupesh Rastogi ◽  
Virendra Kumar

The first legislation in India relating to patents was the Act VI of 1856. The Indian Patents and Design Act, 1911 (Act II of 1911) replaced all the previous Acts. The Act brought patent administration under the management of Controller of Patents for the first time. After Independence, it was felt that the Indian Patents & Designs Act, 1911 was not fulfilling its objective. Various comities were constituted to recommend, framing a patent law which can fulfill the requirement of Indian Industry and people. The Indian Patent Act of 1970 was enacted to achieve the above objectives. The major provisions of the act, provided for process, not the product patents in food, medicines, chemicals with a term of 14 years and 5-7 for chemicals and drugs. The Act enabled Indian citizens to access cheapest medicines in the world and paved a way for exponential growth of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry. TRIPS agreement, which is one of the important results of the Uruguay Round, mandated strong patent protection, especially for pharmaceutical products, thereby allowing the patenting of NCEs, compounds and processes. India is thereby required to meet the minimum standards under the TRIPS Agreement in relation to patents and the pharmaceutical industry. India’s patent legislation must now include provisions for availability of patents for both pharmaceutical products and processes inventions. The present paper examines the impact of change in Indian Patent law on Pharmaceutical Industry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suryakanta Swain ◽  
Rabinarayan Parhi ◽  
Bikash Ranjan Jena ◽  
Sitty Manohar Babu

Background: Quality by Design (QbD) is associated with a modern, systematic, scientific and novel approach which is concerned with pre-distinct objectives that not only focus on product, process understanding but also lead to process control. It predominantly signifies the design and product improvement and the manufacturing process in order to fulfill the predefined manufactured goods or final products quality characteristics. It is quite essential to identify the desired and required product performance report, such as Target Product Profile, typical Quality Target Product Profile (QTPP) and Critical Quality Attributes (CQA). Methods: This review highlighted the concepts of QbD design space, for critical material attributes (CMAs) as well as the critical process parameters that can totally affect the CQAs within which the process shall be unaffected thus, consistently manufacturing the required product. Risk assessment tools and design of experiments are its prime components. Results: This paper outlines the basic knowledge of QbD, the key elements; steps as well as various tools for QbD implementation in pharmaceutics field are presented briefly. In addition to this, quite a lot of applications of QbD in numerous pharmaceutical related unit operations are discussed and summarized. Conclusion: This article provides a complete data as well as the roadmap for universal implementation and application of QbD for pharmaceutical products.


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