Compliance Training Webinars for Regulated Industries

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.

This Validation training will explain the intent and importance of process validation. Process validation is critical to the production of high quality, consistent, safe and effective products and devices. Routine end-product testing alone is insufficient to assure the quality, safety and effectiveness of a product or device. It is important that the product acceptance criteria and specifications are quantified, and that the manufacturing processes are well characterized, understood, controlled and validated.

This Process Validation training will detail the key qualification steps in process validation, the use of statistical methodology for sampling plans and acceptance criteria, how to handle deviations, elements of a good validation summary report. Process validation is critical to the production of high quality, consistent, safe and effective products and devices. Routine end-product testing alone is insufficient to assure the quality, safety and effectiveness of a product or device. It is important that the product acceptance criteria and specifications are quantified, and that the manufacturing processes are well characterized, understood, controlled and validated.

This Pharmaceutical training will utilize the Aseptic Processing Guidance as a centerpiece for conducting MDD investigations and will supplement its proposals with additional industry-standard best practices. The scope of the FDA guidance document on Out-Of-Specification results addresses analytical excursions, not microbiological excursions (Microbiological Data Deviations - MDD), although the approach for correcting them is the same: 1) Determine the root cause 2) Determine a corrective and/or preventative action and 3) Demonstrate that the corrective/preventative action was effective. Recent FDA warning letters cite microbiological excursions and many companies are unsure how to correct them since there are no definitive guidance’s. This webinar will utilize the Aseptic Processing Guidance as a centerpiece for conducting MDD investigations and will supplement its proposals with additional industry-standard best practices.

This Quality management training will show you how to use methods you probably already have in place to create effective preventive action. Linking these on-going tools to your CAPA program will increase the benefit. Many organizations focus on improving root cause problem solving and tracking issues and corrective actions. That’s a good beginning to a CAPA program. But many organizations don’t effectively implement Preventive Action.

This SOX compliance training will help you become acquainted with the latest information regarding IFRS and will include an opportunity to practice applying these standards.

This ASTM E2500 training will review how these ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) and ICH (International Conference on Harmonization) approaches can simplify the qualification process. Regulatory groups have responded by providing guidance documents such as ICH Q9: “Quality Risk Management” which encourages a level of risk appropriate to safety and efficacy and provides a toolbox of risk management methods. ICH Q8: “Pharmaceutical Development” encourages the use of scientific methods to mitigate risk through concepts such as Design Space, Quality by Design (QbD), Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Continuous Verification.

This pharmaceutical training provides a detail review and evaluation of Regulatory requirements on pharmaceutical packaging materials from US and EU. This pharmaceutical training provides a detail review and evaluation of the regulatory requirements for packaging operations including description, suitability, protection, safety, compatibility, performance, Quality Control, supplier, and stability.

This Validation training will explain the intent and importance of process validation, the connectivity between design control and process validation and the key pre-requisites and steps in process validation. Process validation is critical to the production of high quality, consistent, safe and effective products and devices. Routine end-product testing alone is insufficient to assure the quality, safety and effectiveness of a product or device. It is important that the product acceptance criteria and specifications are quantified, and that the manufacturing processes are well characterized, understood, controlled and validated.

This GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) webinar presents a straightforward summarization of the roles and responsibilities of all the people that contribute to a GLP study.

This SOX compliance training will help you become acquainted with the latest information regarding IFRS and will include an opportunity to practice applying these standards. International Financial Reporting Standards are changing how companies account for long-lived tangible assets on their financial statements.

This Contamination-Control training will provide valuable assistance to companies that need to validate their cleaning and disinfection programs.