Strategies for Compliant Pharma Sourcing

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Objectives

The 3rd EFCG Pharma Business Conference aims to provide a forum for the relevant policy and decision makers and major stakeholders to discuss the key market, legal and insurance topics affecting the strategic sourcing of pharma raw materials, and GMP-related topics with respect to global API and excipient manufacturing and sourcing.

  

   Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon

Programme

General Session: Market Situation and Legal Aspects

  • Today’s Pharma Raw Material Market for APIs and Excipients
  • Insurance and Legal Aspects of Pharma Raw Material Sourcing
  • Traded Pharma Raw Materials – Compliance and EU Market Situation: View from a Trading Company with Q7 GMP focus
  • Traded Pharma Raw Materials – Compliance and EU Market Situation: Views on how to improve the overall compliance situation for APIs imported from China
  • Counterfeit Raw Materials: A threat to the safety of medicines

Excipients Session

  • Status of the European Commission’s work on designing GMP-based Excipient Regulations
  • EFCG Proposals for a Certification Scheme for Excipients
  • The IPEC View and Guidance Documents on Excipients’ compliance

API Session

  • EMEA’s Update on activities relating to inspections and compliance of APIs
  • Heads of Medicines Agencies’ API Strategy
  • FDA’s New API Strategy to better protect US Consumers
  • API GMP and Good Distribution Practice Inspections findings
  • New API regulations and other API developments in China – State of Play

 

Speakers

Speakers from authorities will include:

  • Nicholas Buhay
    FDA, USA
  • David Cockburn
    EMEA, United Kingdom
  • Domenico DiGiorgio
    AIFA, Italy
  • John Taylor
    MHRA, United Kingdom
  • Lionel Viornery
    AFSSAPS, France

Speakers from industry will include:

  • Tim Bölke
    BASF, Germany
  • Arnulf Heubner
    Merck KGaA, Germany
  • Charles Hu
    BimSifram Group, France
  • Erol Thomas Isim
    Pharma Action, Germany
  • Carsten Krüger
    Forstmann Kleist & Partner, Germany
  • Iain Moore
    IPEC Europe, Croda, UK
  • Guy Villax
    Hovione, Portugal