Layered Process Audits for USFDA Regulated Industries

🎤  John E. Lincoln        |  📅  December 7, 2022   |  🕒  10 AM Eastern Time US

Why You Should Attend: : This webinar will primarily examine the two most visible cGMPs, Drugs and Devices, and related FDA initiatives, to see where LPA could assist compliance. Such a review will focus on the broad range of issues a company’s senior management and QA/RA need to consider in their annual Internal Audit Program and Management Review of their existing quality management system – with the goal of isolating key areas where the LPA can be logically and easily implemented. Such a review takes on added urgency as a result of the stated intent of the Agency to get tougher across the board in its expectations for the medical industry and what the FDA and industry need to do internally. Critical cGMP compliance concerns and areas for required review or related industry problem areas that are amenable to the LPA methodology will be considered. Implementation examples and suggested form formats / templates will be presented and discussed. LPA-assisted locating and addressing of weak spots proactively will also prove a company is “in control”, prepare proactively for an FDA inspection, and assist in auusring accurate submissions to the Agency, and in any needed remediation efforts.

Description:

How can this new internal inspection tool – the Layered Process Audit (LPA) – be used to assist in FDA regulatory compliance, and in meeting requirements for an annual internal cGMP system audit / inspection.

Each year companies are to perform a complete review /inspection / audit of their quality management system and its ability to meet the current GMP’s (cGMPs). How can the new Layered Process Audit concept be adapted to assist companies to proactively address areas of GMP concern, while simultaneously fulfill their annual internal audit requirements. The continual major shift in  emphasis of the U.S. FDA cGMP compliance audits, clinical trial expectations, product submissions and company response requirements, all point toward the need for more on-going monitoring / inspecting / auditing of a company’s cGMP system, with real-time feed back increasingly importan. Since all regulatory areas come under evaluation by the FDA, they need to be frequently revisited by a company’s QA/RA and its senior management. There is “no business as usual”.

This change in focus has a major impact on intrepretation of individual compliance objectives, cGMP objectives, and measurements of success. The principles of a Layered Process Audit adapt themselves to this changing environment. Recent FDA guidance on process validation stresses the need to maintain a process in a state of validation control, which further lends itself to the LPA. This webinar will examine / review FDA’s “must-have’s” for corporate cGMP compliance and how they can be readily incorporated into the LPA process.