Live Online Conference: ICH Q2/ICH Q14 Analytical Procedure Life Cycle Management

16/17 September 2020

Course No. 18311

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Speakers

Mijo Stanic

Mijo Stanic

CHROMICENT

Dr. Xaver Schratt

Dr. Xaver Schratt

GBA Pharma

Dr. Christopher Burgess

Dr. Christopher Burgess

Burgess Analytical Consultancy

Dr. Joachim Ermer

Dr. Joachim Ermer

Ermer Quality Consulting

Dr Rainer Gnibl

Dr Rainer Gnibl

GMP Inspector

Objectives

This conference provides a comprehensive overview of the new ICH Quality Guideline Q14 on Analytical Procedure Development, and the revised Q2 Guideline on Validation of Analytical Procedures. Experts from authorities, industry and contract laboratories will discuss with you the contents, their significance for practice and approaches for implementation in your company.

Background

As early as 2018, the ICH announced that the Q2(R2)/Q14 Expert Working Group (EWG) would develop a new ICH quality guideline, ICH Q14, for the development of analytical methods and revise the ICH Q2(R1) guideline for the validation of analytical procedures. This will complement the existing ICH Q8 to Q12 guidance and the current ICH Q13 guidance for continuous manufacturing. The new Analytical Procedure Development Guideline (Q14) will then be relevant for sections S4, P4 and P5 of the CTD and should be seen together with Q8(R2) and Q11 as a supplement to the guidelines. The use of the enhanced approach to analytical procedures development and validation can contribute to resource-efficient drug development as well as submission process or facilitate changes after CMC approval. The revised Q2(R1) guideline will also be relevant for sections S4, P4 and P5 of the CTD, with an emphasis on systematic analytical development. As development and validation are linked and subsequent steps, both guidelines will be worked on by the same Expert Working Group, with a potential to combine both documents into one.

Q2(R1) Revision
The current Q2(R1) „Guideline on Validation of Analytical Procedures: Text and Methodology“ does not yet include modern analytical methods (e.g. near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy or Raman spectroscopy). This gap can lead to insufficient validation data for submissions and thus to additional official queries and thus to a delay in the approval of the application. This applies in particular to methods based on multivariate models, a category for which there is currently no guidance in ICH Q2(R1). NIR or Raman spectroscopy is often used in process control and real-time release testing (RTRT) using multivariate analytical methods. Therefore, the revision of ICH Q2(R1) will specifically serve the validation of modern analytical methods, including a discussion of statistical aspects. Common validation characteristics for methods such as NIR, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and hyphenated techniques such as CE-MS, CE-ICP-MS, LC-NMR, GC-MS, LC-MS will also be considered.

Q14 Analytical Method Development Guide
As there is no ICH guideline for the development of analytical methods yet, it is often the case that applicants only report on analytical validation results and seldom present a performance evaluation with analytical development results. This makes communication with the regulatory authorities more difficult, especially when unconventional analytical methods are used (e.g. RTRT and multivariate models for process control). In addition, the lack of guidelines excludes the possibility for the applicant to provide a scientific basis for flexible regulatory approaches (e.g. Quality by Design (QbD) concept) to change analytical methods after approval.

According to ICH, the new directive is proposed to harmonise the scientific approaches to analytical process development and to provide the principles for the description of the analytical process development process. The new guideline should improve communication between industry and regulators and allow for more efficient, sound scientific and risk-based authorisation and change management for post-authorisation changes to analytical methods.

Issues to be addressed
Q14 Analytical Procedure Development guideline
Main technical and scientific elements, which require harmonization, include:
  • Submission of analytical procedure development and related information in CTD format,
  • The concept and strategy of enhanced approaches for analytical procedures,
  • Performance criteria of analytical procedures,
  • In line with ICH Q8 to ICH Q12, a greater understanding of analytical procedures can create the basis for more efficient, sound science and risked-based lifecycle management (e.g., using analytical QbD (AQbD) principles), 
  • Key elements and terminology,
  • Demonstration of suitability for RTRT.
Q2(R1) Revision
For procedures reliant on multivariate methods the following will be addressed:
  • Definition of validation characteristics applicable to multivariate methods which may differ with the area of application (e.g., identification vs. quantitation, batch vs. continuous process, dosage form assay vs. blending monitoring),
  • Important method parameters (e.g., the number of latent variables) established during method development,
  • Robustness which is well understood, however does not have a quantitative measure,
  • Inclusion of post-approval verification and maintenance considerations as a part of the validation,
  • Requirements for validation data sets.

Target Group

This conference is addressed to all persons from
  •  Development
  •  Quality Control
  •  Quality Assurance
  •  Regulatory departments
  •  Contract labs
  •  Authorities
who are involved in the development and validation of analytical procedures or their evaluation.
 

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Programme

Live Online Conference: ICH Q2/ICH Q14 Analytical Procedure Life Cycle Management

Seminar Programme as PDF

Programme 16 September 2020

13.00 – 13.15 h 
Welcome and Introduction

13.15 – 14.00 h
The Revision of ICH Q2 and Development of ICH Q14
  • Important gaps and deficiencies in current ICH Q2(R1)
  • Content of the draft Guidelines Q2 / Q14
  • Expectations for Q2 revision and  Q14
14.00 – 15.30 h
Product Life Cycle Concept from the Perspective of the Authorities - Focus: New Approaches in Process Development/Validation & Production Routine
  •  Quality by Design Lifecycle
  •  Realtime Release Testing
  •  Modern Process Analysis                             
15.30 – 15.45 h   Break

15.45 – 16.15 h
Description of analytical Procedure and Validation, a Regulator’s View
  •  Development of analytical method vs validation of analytical method
  •  Overall control strategies
16.15 – 16.45 h
How to establish an Analytical Target Profile (ATP) for Small Molecules
  •  What needs an ATP
  •  When to Establish ATPs
  •  How to Write ATPs
  •  How to Use/Update ATPs
16.45 – 17.15 h
How to establish an Analytical Target Profile (ATP) for Large Molecules
  •  ATP as the corner stone of the analytical procedure development strategy
  •  How to set up an ATP for methods applied to biologics
  •  Case studies
17.15 – 18.00 h
Questions & Answers
 
Programme 17 September 2020

08.30 – 09.00 h
How Software Tools can support QbD Method Development
  •  Modern Quality-by-Design approach
  •  Statistical concepts with experimental design plans (also referred to as Design-of-Experiments) as an efficient and fast tool for method development
  •  Multivariate data analysis software package Fusion QbD®
  •  Chromatography simulation software DryLab®
  •  Workflow and examples in using software packages for method development
09.00 – 09.45 h
The ECA APLM Guide
  •  The ECA Analytical Quality Control Group
  •  Interactions between the Groups within ECA
  •  Drivers for and the process of the guideline development
  •  Contents and structure of version 1 July 2018
  •  Going forward; the journey to version 2
09.45 – 10.00 h  Break

10.00 – 10.45 h
Verifications of Compendial Methods in Pharmaceutical QC
  •  Requirements for verification of compendial methods
  •  Verification versus validation versus analytical transfer
  •  Life cycle approach for compendial methods
  •  Design ranges for compendial methods
  •  Typical verification approaches
10.45 – 11.30 h
Analytical Lifecycle Management using an enhanced versus traditional Approach
  •  ATP, DOE and MODR on a case study
  •  Risk-based approach and patient impact considerations
  •  Analytical method changes post approval
11.30 – 12.00 h
Questions & Answers

12.00 – 13.00 h  Break

13.00 - 13.45 h
Robustness and DoE
  •  Experimental Design
  •  Method Optimisation – Response Surface Designs
  •  Robustness Testing – Fractional Factorial Designs
  •  Ruggedness Testing – Measurement Systems Analysis
  •  Equivalent Testing – Two One Sided Tests
13.45 – 14.30 h
Validation for MAA/NDA. Planning and Execution
  •  Overview of relevant guidelines, pharmacopeial monographs
  •  ICH Q2 current version
  •  Practical Aspects of Method Validation (incl. examples)
14.30 -14.45 h  Break

14.45 – 15.30 h
TMU (Target Measurement Uncertainty)
  •  Stimuli Article by USP
  •  Deriving TMU from Specification
15.30 – 16.15 h
How to establish an efficient and relevant continued Performance Monitoring Program in pharmaceutical Analysis
  •  What method performance information is available? (conformity, validity, numerical performance parameter)
  •  Identification of performance characteristics relevant for the analytical procedure: exploitation of available routine data
  •  Use of control charts
  •  Assay of control batches (virtual and concrete)
  •  The power of multiplicity: Calculation of long-term performance parameters (precisions)
16.15 – 17.00 h
Questions & Answers

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