State

of the Industry

Liz Tierney, Publisher

 Topics Covered

The Growth of Biologics and Temperature

Sensitive Packaging

FDA Global Shift from GMPs to Quality

PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference

Serialization and beyond

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 Biologics

Estimated, global biologics market will be at

$221 billion by 2017

High value products diagnosing, treating, and

preventing chronic, life-threatening diseases

Expected to grow faster than overall pharma

market
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What is a biopharmaceutical?

aka biological medical product, biologic or biological

Any medicinal product manufactured in or extracted from

biological sourcesmanufactured in a living system

Microorganism
Plant cells
Animal cells
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Most biologics are very large, complex

molecules or a mixture of molecules
Many are manufactured using
recombinant DNA technology
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Examples include:

Monoclonal antibodies
Vaccines/theraputic vaccines
Blood and blood products
Gene therapies
Cell therapies
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There are 907 biologics reported now in the

pipeline represent the cutting edge of
medicine.
They will be used to treat cancer, infectious
diseases, autoimmune disorders, etc.
Targeting 100 diseases--not only treat, but to
prevent or diagnose.
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1/3 of new drug approvals in developed

markets have been biologics

Accounted for 6 of the 10 best selling drugs in

2015

Probability of clinical success is less than 12%

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Biologics offer major pharmaceutical

manufacturers built in patent protection.

The product is the process. Living systems can

be very sensitive to minor changes in the mfg
process and can change the way the biologic
functions
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So the sheer size of these APIs (active

pharmaceutical ingredients) are behemoths
when comparing their relative molecular mass
to even the largest of conventional drugs.

Highly unstable, susceptible to vibration, light

and temperature excursions.

The COLD Chain

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The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention

estimates that $300 million of vaccines alone
are destroyed due to improper storage and
distribution.

Numbers for other bio-therapeutics not known!

Figures include only product known or

suspected to be compromised.
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The Last Mile

An assessment of 721 primary care doctors
offices revealed 17 to 37 percent of staff
members had exposed their vaccine inventory to
improper conditions.
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Refrigerators set too warm or too cold

Placing vaccine in the refrigerator door
Placing food in same cooling unit
Leaving inventory out on table during group
vaccinations
Returning warm, unused doses to refrigerator
 FDA Office of Quality

Ten years ago the FDA created a Vision for 21st

Century Manufacturing. The agency wanted an
efficient, flexible pharmaceutical manufacturing
sector producing high quality drugs without
extensive regulatory oversight.
 FDA Office of Quality
So how are we doing a decade later?

tremendous increase in field alert reports.

Recalls have increased dramatically

Drug shortages increasing as well

Source: Russell Wesdyk, FDA Office of Pharmaceutical Science

 FDA Office of Quality

Cancer patient on a pretty special drug.

Lets say complex and expensive to
manufacture. (Biologic?)
The plant is registering 50% of batches failing.
Does that sound like a validated process to
you? You start running into availability
issues.
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FDA talking to industry to develop data that may

signal which manufacturing plants are straying
from standards and may need inspection.

The agency currently only collects such

information during inspections.

The thrust of the office is to head off potential

concerns before the agency wields penalties.
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A question of resources.

Inspectors are often responsible for a wide variety

of facilities:

Food
Medical device
Pharmaceutical
Biologics
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The focus for the FDA to act globally (FDASIA)

puts even more pressure on resources, making it
more imperative to make predictions about
where investigation would do most good, or
catch problems percolating under the surface.
 FDA Office of Quality-Metrics

Whats FDASIA Looking For?

Lot acceptance/lot failure rates
Product quality complaint rate
Low acceptance rate for whole site
Confirmed out of spec rates
Recalls
Rework
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Gaming The System

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But certainly plants ranked high would not be

on a priority list to inspect up to ten years.

Huge incentive for well-run, top-tier

manufacturers to keep FDA out of their hair.

Concentrate on the bad actors.

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How could patient groups or insurance

companies use this data?
Could you see a label by the pharmacy stating:
The medication you are about to take was
made at a plant rated 1,447 out of 5,000 plants
in quality.
What does that even mean?
 FDA Office of Quality

From the same Bloomberg report

A fourth Ranbaxy facility was banned from U.S.

exports after FDA inspectors found drugs were
being retested to gain favorable results after
initial analysis failed.

Gaming the system, indeed.

FDASIA TAKES FDA GLOBAL
 Regulatory Conference Update

Food And Drug Administration Safety and

Innovation Act. July 9, 2012

FDASIA includes a set of provisions, contained in

Title VII of the statute, which give FDA new
authority to address the challenges posed by an
increasingly global drug supply chain, including
shortages. FDA is working to implement these
authorities.
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Supply chain fun facts

300,000 foreign factories

150 different countries
130,000 regulated importers
Shipping to 300 U.S. ports
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50% of fruit
20% of vegetables
80% of seafood and spices
40% of drugs
80% of the APIs used to make drugs
Typical drug mfr. employs 35 contract mfrs
around the globe
No distinction between U.S. and foreign plant
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Drug Shortages
Between 150 and 200 drugs suffered from
acute shortages, a four-fold increase between
2005 and 2012.
2012FDA Safety and Innovation Act was
passed to help eliminate drug shortages
FDA helped prevent 681 drug shortages since
2012
In 2015, only 68 shortages thru end of June
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While reasons include raw materials shortages or

not enough manufacturing capacity, the number
one reason is product quality

problems at the manufacturing/processing stage

The FDA is looking to the continuous process

industries and asking, why can't we have the
same quality metrics?
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Clinical trial global supply chainorphan
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Surgical Robots and smart kitting
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Sources
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
GxP Lifeline (A Master Control Publication)
Healthcare Packaging magazine
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Magazine
Business Monitor International
PharmaManufacturing.com
Bio Industry Organization
Fisher BioServices
Bloomberg
Healthcare Packaging Magazine