Effectively Addressing and Remediating FDA's Form 483 Findings, Warning Letters and Consent Decree Compliance Issues

Understanding the various implications of not adhering to the rules and regulations of the specific requirements guiding each product types and observed mistakes made by some manufacturers of products that led to the closure of several manufacturing site through an FDA injunction and further bankruptcy of a cGMP product manufacturer will be discussed. This will help in preventing a similar mistake or further detrimental actions from happening or progressing into even more difficult ones. The difficulties and cost associated with remediating an FDA’s Consent decree is very high and most manufacturers of a cGMP drug product have found it very difficult to come out of a consent decree due to the difficulties associated with remediation. Preventing the initiation and progression of compliance related issues and then instituting an appropriate way to address these issues effectively and expeditiously before they become impacting will be discussed. This seminar enhance the attendees’ knowledge as follows:

1. A description of what constitutes an FDA’s Form 483 Compliance Findings, Warning Letter or Consent Decree.
2. The progression and severity of the various FDA compliance findings, triggers of the various progression of the compliance related disciplinary issues and criticality of each type.
3. Discuss what companies are doing “Right” and “Wrong” when they have compliance related findings and letters such as FDA's form 483 Findings, Warning Letter or Consent Decree.
4. Discuss the reasons why some companies with recurrent unresolved FDA’s Form 483 findings end up with further progressive compliance issues such as a subsequent FDA’s Warning Letter and/or a Consent decree.
5. Effective Steps in resolving FDA’s Form 483 Findings, Warning Letter and Consent Decree. The importance of expediting a company’s response to each type of compliance citation from by FDA.
6. Discuss the entire process of Consent Decree and various scenarios and players in the process through remediation.
7. Discuss several damaging effects arising from unresolved and difficult compliance related issues such as FDA’s Form 483 Compliance Findings, FDA’s Warning Letter and Consent Decree.
   1. The cost and other impact associated with resolving compliance Remediation Costs.
   2. The overall impact on manufactured products, regulatory filings, employees, product filing, and the overall business and its reputation.
8. The most effective ways in addressing, handling and resolving or remediating compliance issues associated with FDA 483, Warning Letter and Consent Decree issues.
9. Discuss several case studies of companies with progressive compliance issues that ended up in Consent Decree.

The Seminar will benefit people within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical device industries that currently have a stability testing program but are not savvy about maximizing the use of their data for extending their product’s expiration dating. The employees who will benefit most include:

• Quality Control Analyst and Management
• Senior Management
• Manufacturing Associates and Management
• Shipping and Distribution Personnel
• Stability Testing Department Personnel and Management
• Regulatory Affairs
• Quality Assurance Analyst and Management
• Process Design Personnel and Management
• Drug Packaging Personnel and Management

Charity Ogunsanya, is the CEO and founder of Pharmabiodevice Consulting LLC. Ms. Ogunsanya has over 23 years of extensive practical and management experience in various Fortune 100 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biologics, cell therapy, diagnostics, research and development, radio-pharmaceutical, Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) and medical device/IVD companies.

She has been a much sought after SME to assume key roles specifically related to remediation and difficult quality and compliance related deficiencies associated with FDA’s Consent Decree, FDA’s Warning Letters and other regulatory bodies’ inspectional findings. Her remediation work has constantly resulted in several successful national and international regulatory bodies’ inspections, re-inspections and new product approvals.

Her technical expertise covers and goes beyond interpretation, administration and set up of quality assurance, quality/compliance, quality engineering, aseptic processing, contamination control, quality control, microbiology, sterility assurance, stability, vaccine development, new product design, product release testing and medical device sterilization (ethylene oxide (EtO), gamma, radiation, VHP sterilization) systems and operations for compliance to various regulations.

She has a keen working knowledge of the requirements and regulations guiding new and existing products from planning through design, proof of concept, research and development, technology transfer, pre-clinical, clinical, commercial manufacturing, supply chain, regulatory filings, pre-approval inspections, licensure, government affairs, commercialization and post-approval inspections.

She is a member of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), American Society of Microbiologists (ASM), and other Scientific Forums and Industry Expert Network. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Benin-Nigeria and she is currently attaining her Masters in Biotechnology (Biodefense Concentration) at the Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Program.

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