FDA proposes to rate pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities - RAPS

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According to the article:

"The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Pharmaceutical Quality has proposed the development of a rating system to measure a firm’s quality management maturity (QMM)  as a way to mitigate drugs shortages and enhance the quality of finished drug products, according to a new white paper. The ratings would be publicly available."

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Go to the white paper referenced above, CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH (CDER) - An Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) White Paper - Quality Management Maturity: Essential for Stable U.S. Supply Chains of Quality Pharmaceuticals 

Report On The State Of Pharmaceutical Quality - FDA.gov

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Report On The State Of Pharmaceutical Quality - FDA.gov

Assuring quality medicines are available for the American public


The report is a good read.  It's data-rich, and provides a good overview.

This comes from the report's introduction:

"The Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) monitors the quality of CDER-regulated drugs legally marketed in the U.S. A quality drug is consistently safe and effective, free of contamination and defects. Patients and consumers expect quality drugs with every dose they take. The ‘State of Pharmaceutical Quality’ is a yearly snapshot of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry’s ability to deliver quality pharmaceutical products."

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About the FDA's Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) - FDA.gov

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"What OPQ Does

OPQ is a new office within CDER that creates a single unit dedicated to product quality. The new structure, to be stood-up in January 2015, is expected to provide better alignment among all drug quality functions at CDER, including review, inspection, and research.

OPQ will combine non-enforcement-related drug quality work into one super-office, creating one quality voice and improving our oversight of quality throughout the lifecycle of a drug product. OPQ creates a uniform drug quality program across all sites of manufacture, whether domestic or foreign, and across all drug product areas – new drugs, generic drugs, and over-the-counter drugs."

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Read more about the OPQ:

• White Paper: FDA Pharmaceutical Quality Oversight (PDF - 2.4MB)

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US FDA launches overarching Office of Pharmaceutical Quality - iPT

Updated June 28, 2025

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"Within the OPQ, the agency will create an Office of Surveillance, which will be tasked with creating new quality metrics, and will let OPQ inspectors know if they need to inspect manufacturing facilities during an NDA (new drug application) review.

After a new industry range of metrics is published, she added that FDA will take “the first two years to make sure we’re measuring apples and apples” and allow facilities to see where they stack up against competitors.

The agency will undergo the “same type of work but new inspection protocols will be” standardized and help industry understand how pre-approval and surveillance inspections can be done, Woodcock said."

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