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Training Course Agenda

Best Practices for OINDP Pharmaceutical Development Programs Leachables and Extractables

April 12-13, 2007
Chicago, IL

Thursday, April 12, 2007

8:30 am

Light Breakfast

9:00 am

Session I: Introduction and Overview
Presenter:
Dan Norwood, Ph.D.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
  • Introduction of training course faculty
  • What are leachables and extractables?
  • Significance of leachables and extractables to OINDP pharmaceutical development programs, i.e., do you want an approval or not?
  • Overview of pharmaceutical development process
  • Quality by Design concepts (QbD)
  • Overview of training course
  • Feedback from trainees regarding course outline and content

9:30 am

Session II: OINDP Container Closure Systems
Presenters:
Michael Ruberto, Ph.D.
NAFTA, Ciba Chemicals

Doug Ball
Pfizer, Inc.
  • Container closure systems components and their selection - QbD
  • Container closure system suppliers
  • Evaluation of information available from suppliers
  • Early safety assessment of potential leachables – case studies and interaction of analytical chemists and toxicologists

10:30 am

Break and Open Discussion

10:45 am

Session III: Safety Evaluation of Extractables and Leachables
Presenters:
Doug Ball
Pfizer, Inc.

Tom Feinberg, Ph.D.
Cardinal Health
  • Overview
  • Safety thresholds for leachables
  • Extension of safety thresholds to extractables
  • The Analytical Evaluation Threshold (AET)

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Session IV: Analysis of Leachables and Extractables
Presenter:
Dan Norwood, Ph.D.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
  • Principles of trace organic analysis
  • Analytical techniques for identification of extractables and leachables
  • What does it mean to “identify” an extractable or leachable?
  • Identification criteria for extractables and leachables
  • Quantitation of extractables and leachables

2:00 pm

Session V: Characterization of Extractables
Presenter:
Diane Paskiet
West Monarch Analytical Laboratories
  • The Controlled Extraction Study
  • Application of the AET for extractables
  • Evaluation of Controlled Extraction Study results

4:00 pm

Break and Open Discussion

4:15 pm

Session VI: Special Case Compound Classes
Presenter:
James Mullis
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
  • Nitrosamines – origins, analysis and control
  • Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs or PNAs) – origins, analysis and control
  • 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole – origins, analysis and control

Friday, April 13, 2007

8:00 am

Light Breakfast

8:30 am

Session VII: Characterization of Leachables
Presenter:
Tom Feinberg
Cardinal Health
  • Analytical method development for leachables
  • Validation of analytical methods for leachables
  • Application of the AET for leachables
  • Leachables testing on formal stability programs
  • Correlation of leachables and extractables

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Session VIII: Quality Control and Specification Setting
Presenter:
Terry Tougas, Ph.D.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
  • Control of leachables through control of extractables
  • Analytical methods for routine quality control of extractables
  • Validation of analytical methods for routine quality control of extractables
  • Establishing extractables specifications and acceptance criteria (process capability analysis, statistical approaches)
  • Establishing leachables specifications and acceptance criteria (process capability analysis, statistical approaches)

11:45 am

Panel Discussion/Q&A - QbD
All Faculty and Attendees

12:30 pm

Lunch


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