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Invests in a new ICP-MS system to address the updated ICH Q3D regulatory guidelines on elemental impurities
February 15, 2017
By: Kristin Brooks
Managing Editor, Contract Pharma
SGS is expanding its elemental analysis testing capabilities at its Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France lab. The site has invested in a new inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system to address the updated ICH Q3D regulatory guidelines on elemental impurities. According to the company, the new instrument, a Thermo ICP-MS: iCAP RQ C2 – ICP-MS quadrupole analyzer, offers accurate, high-throughput testing, and is currently undergoing validation. It is expected to be fully operational by the end of February 2017. The investment complements the atomic absorption spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP/OES) and ICP-MS systems at the facility. “With this investment, SGS and its dedicated elemental impurities team are in a position to support pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies through the challenges of the new regulatory guidelines,” said Paul Beyou, general manager of SGS’s Villeneuve-la-Garenne facility. “SGS is dedicated to offering its clients access to the very latest technology and expertise to ensure regulatory demands can be met efficiently and with no disruption to developmental timelines.” ICH Q3D Step 4 was published in December 2014. Since then, it has required that a risk analysis be deployed for all drug products on the specified list of elements and their permitted daily exposure (PDE) limits. The guideline came into effect in June 2016 for new drug products, and existing products will have to comply by December 2017.
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