PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY :
GMP Laboratory Readiness
  Client:   A start up pharmaceutical company with a product on the FDA "fast track."
     
  Problem:   The client recognized that its quality control laboratory would not meet GMP criteria based on internal and external audits. It was critical that the QC lab be operating in a GMP manner, in a brief timeframe, to meet company goals for filing of their first drug product.
     
  Approach:   Tunnell Consulting was asked to work with the QC Lab which included supervisors and scientists to create and implement a plan that would result in the QC lab meeting GMP compliance. Tunnell supplied subject matter expertise, project management support, and team facilitation. Critical metrics were identified which included:
  • Equipment qualification
  • Test method validation
  • Essential laboratory SOPs
  • Training
    Existing data was collected against all metrics. Functional key stakeholders were involved throughout the project, providing critical information, data, and the identification of problems and functional gaps that had to be addressed.
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      Results:   Tunnell Consulting entered into an ongoing long-term partnership with the client, already lasting several years, and was ultimately selected as the client's sole supplier of outsourced analytical and validations services. We provided the following:
  • TC assigned high-caliber, experienced scientists to develop and validate methods, address routine testing requirements, and relieve backlogs
  • TC scientists became qualified on client SOPs, lab protocols, data formats, data systems, policies and procedures
  • TC scientists organized, planned, and supervised work teams of analytical chemists, working at client facilities and on client equipment, consistent with cGMP standards
  • TC scientists performed analytical testing across multiple consumer products and dosage forms
  • TC project managers organized data, developed reports, and facilitated the report review and approval process
  • TC provided expert resources to support both routine R&D laboratory testing and clinical/regulatory submissions
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