Pharmaceutical Quality Resources Updated - FDA.gov

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Pharmaceutical Quality Resources Updated - FDA.gov

The content on the FDA webpage mentioned above was recently updated.

It's a nice landing page of jump off points for most things related to quality.

If you need an overview:

"This  white paper provides additional background regarding OPQ and the FDA’s oversight of pharmaceutical quality."

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Report On The State Of Pharmaceutical Quality - FDA.gov

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Center For Drug Evaluation And Research - Office Of Pharmaceutical Quality

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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FDA finalizes quality guidelines for contract manufacturers | BioPharma Dive

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"In its 16-page document, FDA also explains that Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) requirements apply to all contract facilities, including analytical testing labs."

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View the published guidance document:
Contract Manufacturing Arrangements for Drugs: Quality Agreements - FDA Guidance for Industry (PDF)

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Major shift ahead in how FDA regulates drug quality: PwC

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Updated June 27, 2022

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FDA Drug Quality Report - Major shift ahead in how FDA regulates drug quality: PwC:

"Parts of the pharmaceutical industry continue to struggle with drug quality. A major shift in the way the FDA oversees drug quality could pose new challenges for companies with inadequate control over their manufacturing facilities and supply chains."

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Read the PwC report:
Major shift ahead in how FDA regulates drug quality (PDF)

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FDA will destroy banned imported drugs - Modern Healthcare

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Updated June 16, 2025

The original link broke.

You can still read about this same topic on this FDA webpage:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/guidance-compliance-regulatory-information/human-drug-imports

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Read the full article: FDA will destroy banned imported drugs - Modern Healthcare Modern Healthcare business news, research, data and events:

"Federal regulators will begin destroying some medications that can't be imported into the U.S.​ because of quality concerns.

Beginning Oct. 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will destroy a drug that wasn't allowed into the U.S. because it's been found to have been “adulterated, misbranded or unapproved” and in violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The policy covers a drug if the value of a single dose is $2,500 or less. "

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Request for Quality Metrics - FDA Guidance for Industry

The FDA has released a guidance document that includes an explanation of how the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) intend to collect data and use quality metrics to help ensure that their policies and practices continue to support continuous improvement and innovation in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.

Read the guidance:  FDA Request for QualityMetrics - Guidance for Industry (PDF)

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US FDA launches overarching Office of Pharmaceutical Quality - iPT

Updated June 28, 2025

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Read the full article: US FDA launches overarching Office of Pharmaceutical Quality - iPT:

"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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FDA - News & Events > From our perspective: Assessing, safeguarding pharmaceutical quality

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Updated March 25, 2021

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"Lucinda Buhse, PhD, acting director, Office of Testing and Research, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, discusses efforts underway in FDA’s laboratories to help assure high-quality drug products are available for the public."

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The article covers:

• Assessing pharmaceutical quality
• Measuring pharmaceutical quality across the drug lifecycle
• FDA’s additional roles in safeguarding quality
• Research and innovation in CDER’s drug quality testing program
• Continuing to help protect consumers from harm

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Guidance Outlining Up to 10 Quality Metrics Expected by Year’s End: FDA Official | 2014-09-26 | FDANews

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Guidance Outlining Up to 10 Quality Metrics Expected by Year’s End: FDA Official | 2014-09-26 | FDANews:

"The FDA is honing in on roughly eight to 10 quality metrics that the agency plans to collect from drugmakers starting in 2015, and expects to publish a guidance that names them by the end of the year."

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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade: A Pilot Study - NBER.org

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"Experts claim that some Indian drug manufacturers cut corners and make substandard drugs for markets with non-existent, under-developed or emerging regulatory oversight, notably Africa. This paper assesses the quality of 1470 antibiotic and tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries. We find that 10.9% of those products fail a basic assessment of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), and the majority of the failures are substandard (7%) as they contain some correct API but the amount of API is under-dosed. The distribution of these substandard products is not random: they are more likely to be found as unregistered products in Africa than in India or non-African countries."

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Read the study paper:
Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade: A Pilot Study (Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin, Aparna Mathur, Amir Attaran). NBER Working Paper No. 20469. Issued in September 2014 (PDF)

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Hamburg to PhRMA: If you don't have quality, the rest doesn't matter - FiercePharma

Hamburg to PhRMA: If you don't have quality, the rest doesn't matter - FiercePharma:

"she said, high-risk products like sterile injectables need to be produced with proper attention for sterile procedures. Advances in science and technology can make a difference, too: Pharma can use quality by design, continuous manufacturing and other approaches to help improve both quality and efficiency in the production process, rooting out preventable problems that create shortages and compromise patient trust.

"It's just so fundamentally important," she said. "If you don't have quality, all the rest of it really doesn't matter.""

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FDA Considers New Quality Metrics

FDA Seeking Industry Input on Quality Metrics to Help Rationalize Its Review and Inspection System | IPQ Newsletter:

"Based on its review of all the responses submitted on the metrics issue, FDA has chosen three that it is considering using and is seeking additional feedback on:

• batch failure rate
• right first time, and
• out-of-specification (OOS)/laboratory failure investigation rates"

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FDA : Draft Guidance - Contract Manufacturing Arrangements for Drugs: Quality Agreements; Availability

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Comments are due to FDA by July 29, 2013.

Federal Register | Draft Guidance for Industry on Contract Manufacturing Arrangements for Drugs: Quality Agreements; Availability:

"This guidance describes our current thinking on defining, establishing, and documenting the responsibilities of each party (or all parties) involved in the contract manufacturing of drugs subject to Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP). In particular, we describe how parties involved in the contract manufacturing of drugs can utilize Quality Agreements to delineate their responsibilities and assure drug quality, safety, and efficacy."

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