PDA Letter Article

Risk Management Shines Light on ICH Q12 Use for Biologics

by Jose C. Menezes, PhD, 4Tune Engineering

World Management

Wanting pharma companies to consider quality-by-design (QbD) elements throughout a product’s entire lifecycle, including post-approval changes, through integration of risk- and knowledge-based approaches, seems to have become a global regulatory expectation. For biologics, however, using these approaches is more complex and companies cannot simply adopt the same strategies used for traditional small molecules.

Members can read the full article in the November/December 2018 PDA Letter (PDF)