5^th International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs August 03-05, 2015 Florida, USA

Varley Dias Sousa is a Pharmacist (2003), post-graduated on health surveillance (2007) and international health systems (2006), and has completed his MSc (2010). Currently he is performing PhD studies at the University of Brasilia. He is a senior Auditor on Brazilian Health Surveillance (ANVISA) since 2005, been certified in Good Manufacturing Practices (inspecting international facilities in almost 10 different countries) and Good Clinical and Laboratory Practices (Inspecting more 30 international CROs). He has evaluated more than 150 bioavailability and bioequivalence (BA/BE) studies and more than 150 Medicine Applications. Also, he is member of the commission in charge of confidentiality classification on Medicine Dossier. Damaris Silveira is a Pharmacist (1986), with PhD in Natural Product Chemistry (1999). Currently she is Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia, and coordinator of Laboratory of Quality Control as well as of the Pharmaceuticals– Regulation and Public Policies research group.

Backgrounds: Regulatory transparency is an imperative characteristic of a reliable National Regulatory Authority. In the region of the Americas, the building process of an open government is still fragile and fragmented on Health Regulatory Agencies (HRA) even on Regional Reference Authorities (RRA). Purpose: This paper assesses the transparency status of RRA, focusing on some medicine life-cycle documents (Medicine Dossier, Clinical Trial Report, and Inspection report), as tools for strengthening health systems. Methods: Through a qualitative and descriptive evaluation of regulatory transparency on RRA, it was portrayed in two different branches: information public disclosure and inter-agency data and work sharing. Results: The risk benefits of information public disclosure were assessed considering the involvement and roles of multi-stakeholders (healthcare professionals, regulators, industry, community, and academics) bearing in mind the protection of commercially and personally confidential data. Inter-agency data and work sharing were inserted in the context of harmonization and co-operation projects that focus on regulatory convergence. Conclusions: Technical and practical engagements are proposed to improve and strengthen health systems in the region of the Americas through establishment of an openness directive over pharmaceutical regulatory environment. To successfully address these challenges is crucial that regional leadershipssteer and support collaborative regional alliances toward the development and establishment of a trustful regulatory environment as well as a sustainable public health system in the Latin America and the Caribbean, using as reference international successful initiatives besides taking into account domestic characteristics and experiences of each single country.

Thais dos Santos Paulino Soares did her Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Federal University of Ouro Preto. She graduated in Pharmacy, also from UFOP, in 2013. Currently, she is pursuing MBA in Regulatory Affairs at the Instituto de Pós Graduação (IPOG), in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Dissolution testing conducted in physiological similar conditions is an useful tool in predicting issues related to pharmacokinetics, may indicate bioequivalence between certain products as solid oral dosage forms, and is employed to optimize the development and ensure the quality of drug formulations. According to Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), comparative dissolution testing is required as a previous stage to the bioequivalence study between the new drug application (NDA) and abbreviated new drug application (ANDA), and also between NDA and similar (ANDA designated by a trademark) in Brazil. For oral suspensions, little information is available in the literature about the dissolution testing conditions, such as insertion and collection of the sample, influence of the system agitation, and others. In 1995, the first monograph including suspension dissolution testing was published in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) 23. Dissolution testing was mentioned in one suspension monograph in Brazilian Pharmacopoeia 4th edition (2005) which was excluded in the 5th edition (2010). In USP 36 (2013), 12 suspension monographs include the test. Currently, 13 NDA, 17 ANDA and 9 similar oral suspensions are registered in Anvisa. Out of these, two (15.4%) NDA, three (17.6%) ANDA and one (11%) similar have monographs with dissolution test in USP 36. In this scenario, the establishment of the dissolution test conditions and its relevance in predicting in vivo performance of suspensions is paramount to subsidize their registration by the regulatory agencies.

Solomon Getnet Meshesha has completed his Bachelor of pharmacy from Addis Ababa University in 2008. He has been working in Addis Ababa City Administration health bureau as a director of pharmaceutical service since October 2008. He is a member of Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Association. Now he is a post graduate student in pharmacoepidemiology and social pharmacy at Addis Ababa University.

Issues related to the quality of medicines are becoming an increasing global concern especially in developing countries. Achieving a high level of quality requires effective medicine legislation and regulation, a competent medicines regulatory authority, good clinical and manufacturing practices with adequate medicines, quality assurance programs and medicines, quality control systems and appropriate medicines information. A qualitative study design was used to obtain primary and secondary information through interviewing key informants and reviewing all available relevant documents from the Addis Ababa city administration medicine regulatory and control authority. Addis Abba medicine regulatory authority is an independent organization whose top management committed to implement quality management and data on licensed and resisted health facilities and professionals are up to date but the authority has no policy on confidentiality and code of conduct for staffs, guideline to ensure requirements on quality, safety and efficacy of drugs and also mechanism to trace any counterfeit and substandard drugs. It has no any scientific body (laboratories) to advise the organization on scientific issues. The regulatory authority was an independent authority established to ensure food safety and quality, efficacy and proper use of medicines, competence and ethics of health professionals and standards of health institutions through licensing, registration and regulations against the set standards. The authority has to keep those findings as strength of the organization and much has to be done to meet the authority’s goals and objectives.