FDA Provides Guidance on Remote Interactive Evaluations for Oversight of Drug Facilities During COVID-19 - Drug Information Update

If your email program has trouble displaying this email, view it as a web page. FDA In Brief: FDA Provides Guidance on Remote Interactive Evaluations for Oversight of Drug Facilities During COVID-19 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the availability of a guidance document entitled, "Remote Interactive Evaluations of Drug Manufacturing and Bioresearch Monitoring Facilities During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency." This guidance describes various interactive and virtual tools. The agency refers to its use of any combination of these interactive tools as a remote interactive evaluation. This guidance describes how remote interactive evaluations will be requested by the FDA and conducted for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency at any facility where pharmaceutical products, including biological products, are manufactured, processed, packed or held; facilities covered under the FDA's bioresearch monitoring program; and outsourcing facilities registered under section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The agency will use existing risk management methods and related tools to determine when to request a facility's participation in a remote interactive evaluation. The FDA conducts inspections for many purposes and programs, including pre-approval and pre-license, post-approval, surveillance, for-cause and bioresearch monitoring programs. The agency will consider each of these inspectional program areas as possible candidates for remote interactive evaluations, recognizing that there will be instances where only an inspection will be appropriate. The FDA intends to use information from remote interactive evaluations to meet user-fee commitments and to update facilities information, when deemed appropriate based on risk and history of compliance with FDA regulations. Facilities can choose to decline the FDA's request to perform a remote facility evaluation; however, this may delay the agency's ability to evaluate the facility or product and make a regulatory decision. The FDA will not accept requests from applicants or facilities to perform a remote interactive evaluation, as decisions to offer a remote interactive evaluation will rest with FDA, based on risk and compliance history. Learn More This is an automated message delivery system. Replying to this message will not reach DDI staff. If you have comments or questions, please contact us at: 1-888-INFO- FDA (1-888-463-6332) or 301-796-3400 from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm ET Monday - Friday. You can also email us at: druginfo@fda.hhs.gov. Stay Connected with U.S. Food and Drug Administration:         SUBSCRIBER SERVICES: Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe All  |  Help

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