A. Heussner, Marlene Hermann, Melanie Zerulla-Wernitz
{"title":"Development and validation of a customized Amplex UltraRed assay for sensitive hydrogen peroxide detection in pharmaceutical water","authors":"A. Heussner, Marlene Hermann, Melanie Zerulla-Wernitz","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":"3 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140441637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dennis Jenke, Piet Christiaens, Philippe Verlinde, Jan Baeten, J. Beusen
{"title":"Correlating GC/MS Relative Response Factors to Analyte′s Physicochemical and Chromatographic Properties to Facilitate the Quantitation of Organic Extractables and Leachables in Non-targeted Analysis (NTA) I. Concepts and Empirical Considerations","authors":"Dennis Jenke, Piet Christiaens, Philippe Verlinde, Jan Baeten, J. Beusen","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2023.012884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2023.012884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140440007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheryl L M Stults, Christine L Lanning, Lee M Nagao, James Conners
{"title":"Biocompatibility Considerations for Orally Inhaled and Nasal Drug Products and Other Drug--Device Combination Products.","authors":"Cheryl L M Stults, Christine L Lanning, Lee M Nagao, James Conners","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2023.012852","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2023.012852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biocompatibility considerations have historically been important for orally inhaled and nasal drug products (OINDPs) and other drug-device combination products, because finished device components and packaging in these products are often in direct contact with formulation and the patient. The International Pharmaceutical Aerosol Consortium on Regulation and Science (IPAC-RS) discusses, in this article, the current regulatory landscape associated with biocompatibility and how biocompatibility is typically assessed for OINDPs, including risk management considerations and navigation of regulatory requirements. The article also describes current challenges related to alignment of regulatory expectations, particularly for drug-device combination products, and proposes some questions and topics for further discussion with regulatory agencies and other stakeholders to help advance alignment. To further illustrate current challenges and industry approaches to meeting biocompatibility requirements, we also present results of an IPAC-RS benchmarking survey and case studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"125-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136398657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excipient and Packaging Material Impact on Glass and Polymer-Based Prefilled Syringe Functionality.","authors":"Liang Fang, Marissa Rase","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012760","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Compared to glass prefilled syringes (PFSs), cyclic olefin polymer (COP) PFS showed more consistent and predictable extrusion forces when exposed to a variety of excipient combinations (buffers, tonicity agents, and surfactants) at various accelerated storage conditions. Furthermore, COP PFSs also showed significantly less variance in extrusion forces within each individual stroke, which is critical for precision applications. Observed performance differences can be explained by fundamental differences in the stability and homogeneity of the primary packaging materials (i.e., COP vs siliconized glass) and their physicochemical interactions with excipients.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"70-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10253747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges Associated with Biological Safety Assessments for Drug-Device Combination Products.","authors":"Cheryl L M Stults, Diane Harper, Doris Zane","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012822","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biological safety assessments for drug-device combination products involve evaluation of the drug container closure and the device constituent part. When the device constituent part is the drug delivery system as well as the drug container closure system, both device and drug-based packaging standards have been deemed applicable. Approaches used for the biological safety assessment of medical devices differ from those used for pharmaceutical packaging/delivery systems. One area of difference is the extent to which chemical characterization with toxicological assessment is used either in addition to, or in place of, biological in vivo or in vitro tests. Differences also exist in the way nonclinical studies are used to evaluate the safety of medical devices or drug delivery systems. The lack of alignment in standards and guidance has resulted in confusion over what combination of tests and methods of evaluation constitute a biological safety assessment that will meet regulatory expectations for a drug-device combination product. The intent of this article is to discuss the challenges created when the packaging or delivery system is also a device constituent part of a drug-device combination product. Suggestions are offered regarding approaches that may be useful for conducting suitable biological safety assessments for drug-device combination products.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"100-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41237602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Klaus Wormuth, Fanny Gaston, Melanie Gauthier, Veronique Cantin, Nelly Montenay
{"title":"Best Practices to Quantify and Identify Particulate Matter on the Interior Surfaces of Single-Use Systems.","authors":"Klaus Wormuth, Fanny Gaston, Melanie Gauthier, Veronique Cantin, Nelly Montenay","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012755","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The manufacturing of a wide range of biopharmaceuticals, from antibodies and vaccines to cell-based therapies, increasingly takes place in single-use processing equipment. Manufactured in clean rooms and sealed and sterilized, single-use systems (SUSs) are ready-to-use and easily scalable. Controls in the \"clean-build\" manufacturing of SUSs reduce the probability of occurrence of particulate matter in SUSs. However, the size, complexity, and limited transparency of SUSs clearly limit the detectability of particulate matter on the interior (fluid-contacting) surfaces of a SUS during a visual inspection, as demonstrated in a recent study. In applications downstream of final filters or in aseptic processing, particulate matter on the surfaces of a SUS could detach and contaminate the final drug product. A realistic assessment of this risk requires reliable test methods that quantify and identify particulate matter present on the interior surfaces of SUSs. Clearly problematic is the common certification of the cleanliness of a SUS via a force-fit adaptation of the pharmacopeial standard USP <788> entitled \"Particulate Matter in Injections\". USP <788> does not describe a procedure for extraction of particulate matter from the interior surfaces of SUSs. In addition, application of Method 1 Light Obscuration significantly limits the probability of detection for particles in the visible size range (≥ 100 µm). In this article, we describe best practices for extracting, counting, sizing, and chemically identifying particulate matter on the interior surfaces of SUSs. Highly effective procedures for the extraction of particulate matter result from application of the qualification methodology described in a recently published ASTM standard. Filtration of the liquid extract concentrates particulate matter onto the surface of a membrane filter, allowing rapid particle counting and sizing using automated membrane microscopy, along with detailed chemical identification using infrared microscopy and/or automated confocal Raman microscopy.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"90-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10253748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shiho Takahashi, Tetsuhito Takarada, Riho Kitamura, Mayumi Shikano, Shingou Sakurai
{"title":"Creating an Assessment Indicator of Quality Culture Development in the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan.","authors":"Shiho Takahashi, Tetsuhito Takarada, Riho Kitamura, Mayumi Shikano, Shingou Sakurai","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012824","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012824","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past few years, there have been several instances of illicit pharmaceutical manufacturing in Japan, and there is a growing awareness of the importance of corporate compliance and pharmaceutical manufacturing and quality controls. One cause of illicit manufacturing is the inadequate development of quality culture. This study focuses on the degree of quality culture development in Japanese pharmaceutical companies manufacturing generic drugs. Because no evaluation index for Japan can visualize the degree of quality culture development in each company, this study sought to establish this index to utilize it as a tool for evaluating the degree of quality culture development that would enable each company to continuously monitor and improve its own. We conducted a questionnaire survey among Japan Generic Medicines Association members to evaluate the degree of their quality culture development. The questionnaire contained 28 questions in five evaluation categories. Potential indicators of quality culture development included \"Employee growth and satisfaction\"; \"Management commitment\"; \"Improvement activities\"; \"Communication\"; and \"Environment, health, and safety.\" We obtained 294 responses from 37 Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) and 61 manufacturing sites. Respondents were classified by roles of management, manager, and nonmanager. The results confirmed the current status of quality culture development efforts, showing that important messages such as the corporate philosophy as communicated by the management is well known, awareness of quality culture development level differs by role, and appropriate resources are not adequately allocated to employees or facilities. Based on the results, use of the index of quality culture development helped to make relative comparisons and visualize the areas to be addressed for quality culture development. This study established and visualized the index for the degree of quality culture development in domestic generic drug manufacturing companies and we hope this indicator becomes a useful tool for evaluating a company's quality culture development level.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"45-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41237603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter V Mercea, Manfred Ossberger, Regina Wyrwich, Matthias Herburger, Vishal Barge, Rajendra Aluri, Valer Toşa
{"title":"Modeling the Migration Behavior of Extractables from Mono- and Multilayer Polyolefin Films to Mathematically Predict the Concentration of Leachable Impurities in Pharmaceutical Drug Products. Part 2: Conservative Diffusion and Partition Coefficient Determinations.","authors":"Peter V Mercea, Manfred Ossberger, Regina Wyrwich, Matthias Herburger, Vishal Barge, Rajendra Aluri, Valer Toşa","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012817","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the development of a pharmaceutical drug product packaging, an important step is to demonstrate acceptable levels of leachable impurities migrating from the packaging material into the drug product during its shelf life and therapeutic use. Such migration processes can be quantified either by analytical methods (which is often challenging and labor intensive) or (in many cases) through theoretical modeling, which is a reliable, quick, and cost-effective method to forecast the level of leachable impurities in the packaged drug when the diffusion and partition coefficients are known. In the previous part, it was shown how these parameters can be determined experimentally, and subsequent theoretical fitting of the results for a series of low- and high-molecular-weight organic compounds (known leachables) in a series of polyolefin materials was performed. One of the interpretations of these results is that a theoretical calculation can be made only for organic compounds and materials whose diffusion/partition/solubility coefficients were determined experimentally and theoretical fitting was achieved. However, in practice, there will be situations in which other leachable compounds may have to be investigated. In such cases, strictly speaking, it would be necessary to perform the whole experimental and fitting procedure for the new compound before a proper theoretical modeling is possible. But this would make the theoretical calculation of a leaching process from a pharmaceutical packaging material a cumbersome and cost intensive procedure. To address this problem, the pools of diffusion and partition coefficients were used to develop an approach that allows the estimation, without any additional experimentation, of so-called \"conservative\" diffusion and partition coefficients for a much wider range of potential leachables in the polyolefin pharmaceutical packaging materials and aqueous solutions investigated previously.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"33-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10353161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter V Mercea, Manfred Ossberger, Regina Wyrwich, Matthias Herburger, Vishal Barge, Rajendra Aluri, Valer Toşa
{"title":"Modeling the Migration Behavior of Extractables from Mono- and Multilayer Polyolefin Films to Mathematically Predict the Concentration of Leachable Impurities in Pharmaceutical Drug Products. Part 1: Experimental Details and Modeling Experimental Results.","authors":"Peter V Mercea, Manfred Ossberger, Regina Wyrwich, Matthias Herburger, Vishal Barge, Rajendra Aluri, Valer Toşa","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012816","DOIUrl":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012816","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An important step in the development of a pharmaceutical drug product is to demonstrate acceptable levels of leachable impurities during the shelf-life and therapeutic use of the drug product. If the diffusion and partition coefficients are known, the concentration profile of a leachable impurity in the drug product can be predicted theoretically at a given temperature and time. With this objective in mind, kinetic experiments were performed to study the migration of low- to high-molecular-weight organic compounds from mono- and multilayer polyolefin films. Migration curves at different temperatures were generated for each compound when these films were brought in contact with aqueous solutions with varying pH or with another plastic film made from a different polyolefin material. \"Best fit\" migration curves and the corresponding diffusion and partition coefficients (about 300 pieces) were obtained by using numerical software developed by FABES. The results obtained show that, in general, the correlation between the calculated diffusion and partition coefficients and temperature, between 30°C and 85°C, obeys the Arrhenius and Van't Hoff equations. In this temperature range, the diffusion and partition coefficients can be used to model and predict migration of the investigated compounds from the same pharmaceutical packaging materials. A comparison of these coefficient values with other polyolefin films also provides insights into the chemistry of the mono- and multilayers and the impact it has on the migration behavior of the compounds. In a consecutive paper, an approach to overestimate the diffusion and partition coefficients to account for the variability in experimental data is explained and finally, the use of these overestimated parameters to predict the concentrations for other compounds leaching from the multilayer films into aqueous drug product formulations is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":"3-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10353167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Degradation of obidoxime chloride solution for injection upon long- term storage under field conditions of Mediterranean climate vs the controlled environment","authors":"Constantin Itin, Meital Zur, Pavel Gorenbein","doi":"10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2022.012792","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19986,"journal":{"name":"PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology","volume":"461 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140482804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}