Compliance Training Webinars for Regulated Industries

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 Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) training will guide you through the different levels of enforcement that FSIS utilizes.

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.

This Food safety compliance training will explain the CCP Decision Tree and help you understand the principles behind each question. We will review various food processing steps in a variety of situations to determine whether they are CCP’s. What is the thought process in determining a CCP? Can it be done consistently? What criteria are used? Are some processing steps always CCP's e.g. heating? If not, why? One thing to remember is the importance of analyzing the hazards at each step very carefully. The more clearly the hazards are described (including equipment failures, personnel errors etc) the easier it will be to find the CCP.

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 FDA validation training will guide you through the validation planning which required meeting the US FDA & ISO 13485 Requirements. FDA Warning Letters and recent high-profile recalls indicate major cGMP deficiencies in many companies. One major failing is lack of sufficient or targeted risk-based V&V planning. Starting with a Master Validation Plan, evaluating its elements against ISO 14971 hazard analysis / risk management, allows development of meaningful product validations. Also: The roles of different V&V protocols; How to employ equipment / process DQs, IQs, OQs, and PQs, against a background of limited company resources (personnel, budgets, time). A matrix simplifies “as-product”, “in-product”, process, and equipment, et al, software V&VT, assuring key FDA requirements are not overlooked. The QMS and 21 CFR Part 11 are considered.

This Laboratory compliance training will review the regulations that cover each environment and present simple and effective strategies for satisfying the requirements. The analytical instruments and equipment used in GXP laboratories must be calibrated and qualified for use in regulated testing. This includes quality control labs attached to cGMP facilities, GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) labs supporting animal toxicology studies and GCP (Good Clinical Practices) labs supporting clinical trials. Additionally, labs supporting EPA studies are also regulated.

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 Food safety compliance training will help you understand the significant differences between the two words and even multiple meanings of the term ’Verification’. Between USDA and Codex there are slight differences and on top of that the definitions have changed over the years. It is very easy to get confused. By going back to principles, referring to other standards (e.g. ISO9000) and simpler terminology students will clearly understand the intent of both Validation and Verification. Having clarified the intent and principles we will review examples of Verification in both Prerequisite Programs and CCP's.

Validation will be explained, especially as it relates to validation of CCP's though the concept pervades the entire HACCP process. Examples will include Cooking, Cooling, and Allergen Cleaning. We will also discuss the two aspects of Validation; the product risk (microbiological, chemical or physical) as well as the Capability of the process. Both must be understood to ensure the control of CCP's is robust. Methods to verify the entire HACCP System will be covered and how this is different from verifying Prerequisite Programs and CCP's.

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.

This Quality management training will cover principles of QMS that will help your organization implement a QMS that is repeatable and efficient.

This FDA Inspection training will examines the audit process and how to manage Process Deviation Investigations.

This medical device compliance training will be helped to see how to understand the similarities and differences of these two complimentary documents and how to comply with the respective requirements and develop compliant files to address. The U.S. FDA’s Design Control requirements of the QS Regulation mandate the initiation and maintenance of a product Design History File for products to be marketed in the U.S. The European Union’s Medical Device Directive and a company’s Notified Body require a Technical Dossier or Technical File to show compliance to the Essential Requirements of the MDD and associated relavant standards for product to be CE-marked and marked in those countries (and others). Attendees will be helped to see how to understand the similarities and differences of these two complimentarty documents. Attendees will be further helped to comply with the respective requirements and develop compliant files to address either or both.