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Risk-based thinking: Why does risk impact how medicines are supplied?

The ethos that high-risk activities should elicit the most significant mitigation effort, and low-risk, lower effort has been a mainstay of the global regulatory approach to risk management of therapeutic products for many years. In 2006, ICH Q9 Quality Risk Management was published and included the statement: The level of effort, formality and documentation of…

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Psilocybin and MDMA move into mainstream medicine

It might seem that changes to pharmaceutical regulations move at a glacial speed but, be assured, that they do move and they are happening. Back in August 2020 (you remember that year – you made a LOT of sourdough), Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (the TGA) announced a consultation regarding amendments to the Poisons Standard. Amongst…

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Subject Matter Experts (SME) | Getting the best from your Experts

The therapeutics goods industry is stuffed to the gunnels with very smart people; those who know the inside and out of all the processes and procedures in their field. They are the people that you want on board to ensure a thorough and educated approach to document writing and are commonly referred to as Subject…

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Implementing a new Quality Management System (QMS): What comes first? The chicken or the egg?

So, you’re working for an exciting brand-new start-up. It’s getting to the pointy end – you understand all your processes, but you need to have these documented and in place to control and direct your regulated activities, ready for your initial regulatory inspection. Or perhaps your business is evolving – you need to incorporate regulation-driven…

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Technical writing is a science, not an art

Technical writing, in the context of the therapeutic goods industry, applies to those documents which instruct, define or report on regulated manufacturing activities; that is Standard Operating Procedures, forms, validation reports, and Design History Files, to name so very few and which are also referred to as “controlled documents”. So that these documents can be…