FDA res­ur­rects pro­pos­al to gauge qual­i­ty met­rics in phar­ma man­u­fac­tur­ing

The FDA is once again re­turn­ing to its hot­ly-con­test­ed qual­i­ty met­rics pro­gram for phar­ma man­u­fac­tur­ers, even as com­pa­nies have ex­pressed ma­jor reser­va­tions.

The agency’s fo­cus on qual­i­ty met­rics be­gan in 2015 and con­tin­ued with a heav­i­ly re­vised draft guid­ance (fol­low­ing in­dus­try cri­tiques) on how to sub­mit met­rics da­ta, in­clud­ing qual­i­ty-re­lat­ed com­plaints. Even­tu­al­ly, the guid­ance spawned two FDA pi­lot projects in 2018.

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