Life Sciences Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This Pharmaceutical training will describe strategies and tactics with concrete examples of how you can set up quality systems that will assure compliance and successful operations and will satisfy the agencies.

This medical device training will guide you through Combination products and overview of clinical benefits, regulatory issues and manufacturing challenges. Medical products, no matter how well designed, can only do so much to address many of the clinical problems today. In order to tackle the clinical problems of the future, medical devices will be used in combination with drugs and biologics (called combination products) to treat a wide range of diseases from heart attack and stroke to Alzheimer’s and diabetes and beyond!

This FDA audit & inspection training will provide your firm with key insights on how to perform superior supplier audits. It will help you uncover purchasing controls GMP violations.

This biotech training will look at different methods to validate the alternate method and Validating of Rapid Microbiological Methods.

This FDA compliance training will provide valuable assistance to all new & existing OTC drug firms that are regulated by FDA due to their domestic USA sales.

This Pharmaceutical compliance training will demonstrate how to implement an effective audit program for both manufacturing and the laboratory and the ability to maintain GMP/GLP/GCP compliance with all suppliers and/or vendors.

This Life cycle management training will provide valuable assistance and gives a process to product design history files and technical files up to date with the new standards through life cycle management.

This Biopharmaceutical training will introduce and link the concepts of GEP and QbD and also identify synergies with the new ASTM E2500 standard Biopharmaceutical Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) must be produced according to Good Manufacturing Practices outlined in FDA and ICH guidelines in order to be marketed to the public. This webinar will review the areas that an inspector may examine when conducting an audit of a biopharmaceutical API supplier to ensure it complies with regulatory requirements.

This Medical device training will guide you through Combination products and overview of clinical benefits, regulatory issues and manufacturing challenges. Medical products, no matter how well designed, can only do so much to address many of the clinical problems today. In order to tackle the clinical problems of the future, medical devices will be used in combination with drugs and biologics (called combination products) to treat a wide range of diseases from heart attack and stroke to Alzheimer’s and diabetes and beyond!

This FDA compliance training will be valuable who are involved in the development of REMS and who are planning a submission and need to understand what might be required by FDA and how to comply and for those who have Risk Management Plans.

In this Cleaning validation training we will discuss preparing the cleaning validation protocol. Important aspects such as how to set acceptance criteria and how to measure cleanliness will then be reviewed.

This Medical device training will discuss how to design and implement a comprehensive, streamlined reimbursement strategy. Many companies do not have an individual responsible for reimbursement. This is a huge mistake! Medical device reimbursement is the second largest barrier to market entrance. FDA approval/clearance is NOT sufficient to ensure reimbursement. Strategy must be devised early in a product’s lifecycle to maximize reimbursement. Learn how to design and implement a comprehensive, streamlined reimbursement strategy. Learn the basics of coding, coverage and payment activities.

This 21 CFR Part 11 training will deliver concrete guidance which will provide a roadmap for compliance that will have immediate benefits, withstand FDA’s changes to Part 11, and discuss the new Obama administration approach to enforcement.

The FDA Audit inspection training defines the laboratory environment; points out problem areas and common pitfalls; and details solutions and also details how to prepare the Laboratory staff for an Inspection as well.

This CAPA training will focus on defining the specific steps to be taken when implementing a CAPA system and review some of the possible pitfalls one may encounter when implementing a CAPA system. This presentation will begin by defining risk in compliance and the methods, which can be used to mitigate risk. One of the methods defined by the regulators and the industry is “Corrective Action Preventive Action” otherwise referred to CAPA. We will first define what we mean by risk. We will then explore the factors associated with risk in compliance. We will also explore risk causing events and how to address them. A review of risk severity/level will then ensue. Upon completion of risk part of the presentation we will define what a CAPA system would look like.

The presentation will focus on CAPA as it applies to risk mitigation. We will define what we mean by a CAPA system. We will further define the tools CAPA uses during implementation. Finally an overview of a CAPA system will be presented and a CAPA approach will be proposed. The approach will focus on defining the specific steps to be taken when implementing a CAPA system and review some of the possible pitfalls one may encounter when implementing a CAPA system. We will also review some of the benefits which may accrue by having a robust CAPA system in place.

This FDA GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) inspection training will walk you through the elements you should plan for, the timing and the logistics of who should do the various components in preparation for the inspection.

This Cleaning validation training will provide valuable assistance to all regulated companies that need to develop and validate their equipment cleaning processes. This session will address risk-based approaches to cleaning validation studies using ICH Q9 and recent FDA comments and observations as a foundation. Recent FDA warning letters illustrate just how critical good cleaning practices are. Understanding and employing good cleaning practices are instrumental to improving cleaning consistency, quality and traceability. The FDA favors automated CIP systems since they reduce operator variability while enhancing consistency and reproducibility. Our research has indicated that in the last 5 years, cleaning citations were noted in 50% of warning FDA letters. Many cited contamination issues have an element of poor cleaning practices associated with them. Examples include “investigations…did not include an evaluation of the cleaning processes and procedures…to determine if equipment cleaning is effective in preventing cross contamination of the inactivated batches”, FDA Warning Letter, Jan 2008; "vaccine manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania, has been served with an FDA warning letter asking for measures to ensure batches of its flu shot ingredients do not become contaminated again.” Jul-2006..

An overview of ICH risk management techniques and how to apply them to equipment cleaning programs will be discussed. In addition, case studies from manufacturing facilities will be used to illustrate risk-based cleaning validation principles and practices.

This Laboratory compliance training will help to understand and implement the new USP chapter.

This Medical device training will provide valuable assistance and guidance to device companies involved in labeling changes. FDA recently released a final rule regarding the parameters in which a device manufacturer can modify label changes to a product. Specifically, manufacturers can add or strengthen the contraindications, warnings, precautions or adverse reactions sections of labeling via a PMA supplement without prior FDA approval only when such modifications are based on newly acquired information and evidence of a causal association between the product and a safety signal is present. The rule also provides clarification as to what the Agency considers to be new information to be incorporated into a label change. Specifically, new information “must reveal risks of a different type or greater severity or frequency than previously included in submissions” and includes meta-analyses, the new regulation states.” FDA requires that drug, biologics, and medical device manufacturers obtain FDA approval of their warning labels before the drugs or devices are marketed and sold. Manufacturers generally must also obtain FDA approval before making changes to labeling information. However, in limited circumstances, companies can revise or supplement their warning labels prior to FDA approval (through changes being effected (CBE) supplements) to ensure consumers are immediately made aware of newly discovered risks.

The labeling regulations, which became effective in late September 2008, clarify that a manufacturer can make unilateral pre-FDA approved labeling changes “only to reflect newly acquired information” when there is “reasonable evidence of a causal association” between the drug or device and the risk. The final rule defines “newly acquired information” as “information not previously submitted to [the] FDA.” This includes “new analyses of previously submitted data,” such as adverse event reports, new clinical study information, and new analyses that “reveal risks of a different type or greater severity or frequency than previously included in submissions to [the] FDA. Under the final rule, however, a CBE supplement is available only if there is "sufficient evidence of a causal association" justifying the addition or strengthening of a contraindication, warning, precaution or adverse reaction. The FDA explains that the language "sufficient evidence of a causal association" refers to the standards for drugs and biologics set forth in §201.57(c)(6) and §201.57(c)(7).

This FDA compliance training will describe the essential requirements for producing sterile products in a practical, clear, concise manner that will facilitate its implementation.