Newsletter | July 31, 2025

07.31.25 -- Navigating FDA Regulatory Changes

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The PDA Pharmaceutical Microbiology Conference 2025 marks two decades of advancing microbiological science and practice. This milestone event brings together the global microbiology community, including experts from industry, academia, and regulatory agencies, to explore the evolving landscape of pharmaceutical microbiology. This year’s theme, Microbial Resilience: Today’s Response, Tomorrow’s Plan, reflects our focus on navigating present-day challenges while building robust strategies for the future.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Closed Sampling: Crucial For Aseptic Processing

Explore the critical role of closed sampling in bioprocessing by gaining insight into regulatory frameworks, system integrity, and aseptic practices essential to ensure compliance and product quality.

What Is The Position Of Regulatory Authorities On PUPSIT?

PUPSIT and other integrity testing methods are crucial for manufacturers to reduce contamination risks and ensure drug product safety. Learn how your company can adhere to updated regulatory guidelines.

FEATURED EDITORIAL

Navigating FDA Regulatory Changes: Policy Shifts, Deregulation, Restructuring, And Future Oversight

Recent shifts within the U.S. FDA reflect an increasingly complex tension between scientific rigor and accelerating political and economic pressures. Here are the newest developments and emerging focal points.

AI-Assisted QMS: Bridging ISO/IEC 42001:2023 And ICH Q10 For Pharmaceutical Excellence

Integrating AI into quality management systems (QMS) can be a transformative opportunity to enhance quality assurance, improve compliance, and enable proactive risk management. 

Cleaning Process Capability: Risk-Based Cleaning Process Performance Qualification

A cleaning validation professional must know how many process performance qualification runs are necessary. Here's how to go about demonstrating this with a high degree of assurance while minimizing the number of qualification runs.

Process Validation: Optimizing Operational Excellence In Pharma & Med Devices

Process validation is often viewed as a costly regulatory formality. However, it is actually a strategic investment that, when integrated into business planning, delivers measurable outcomes in productivity, compliance, speed-to-market, and profitability.

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