1. Event Announcement
PQM 2025 First Half Spring Academic Seminar
🗓️ Date: Friday, June 27, 2025, 2:00 PM (Registration from 1:00 PM)
📍 Venue: Hotel Square Ansan (formerly Hotel Square by Savills)
📌 Ballroom: Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor
🌐 Hotel Info | ☎ 031-490-2000🎤 Topics & Speakers:
- CCS Case Study
🔹 Jusung Park, Team Leader – Hanmi Pharmaceutical - Warning Letter Case Study: Data Integrity
🔹 Seunghoon Lee, Deputy General Manager – Waters Korea - Case Analysis: GMP Consultation & Compliance Measures
🔹 Minki Kim, Officer – MFDS, Gyeongin Regional Office, Drug Inspection Division - Recent Major GMP Violations
🔹 Hyunji Kim, Officer – MFDS, Gyeongin Regional Office, Product Safety Division
Join us to explore real-world quality challenges and up-to-date regulatory insights.
2. Regulatory Updates
📍 Ireland’s HPRA Releases New GDP Guide Update
The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) of Ireland has published an updated version of its Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guide, introducing heightened expectations and clarifications across core operational areas.
The revised guide strengthens compliance requirements in the following areas:
- Temperature monitoring systems – Enhanced expectations for equipment calibration, continuous monitoring, and excursion management
- Transportation risk assessment – Detailed guidance for evaluating supply chain vulnerabilities during transit
- Broker oversight and documentation – Clearer requirements for ensuring broker compliance with GDP and maintaining robust records
The guide also provides expanded and updated instructions across the following chapters:
- Chapter 1 – Quality Management
- Chapter 2 – Personnel
- Chapter 3 – Premises and Equipment
- Chapter 4 – Documentation
- Chapter 5 – Operations
- Chapter 6 – Complaints, Returns, Suspected Falsified Medicinal Products, and Recalls
- Chapter 7 – Outsourced Activities
- Chapter 8 – Self-Inspections
- Chapter 9 – Transportation
- Chapter 10 - Specific Provisions for Brokers
🔗 Read the full article at GMP Compliance
3. TrackWise/ TrackWise Digital – Spring ’25 Highlights
The Spring 2025 release delivers meaningful upgrades across modules:
🔹 Document Management
• Renumber existing document records
• Reset numbering conventions for legacy documents🔹 Artificial Intelligence
• CAPA Evaluator enhancement
• Semantic insight mapping
• Consolidated AI metrics dashboard🔹 TrackWise Digital Platform
• Family Tree support in QPAs
• Improved child record lookups
• Built-in translation for workflow status and actions🔹 Complaint Management
• Improved usability and responsiveness of eMDR forms🔹 Training Management
• Delay training assignments based on prerequisite training status
• Configure and print training certificates🔹 TW on Prem
• Tech Stack Upgrade
📩 Inquiries & Demo Requests:
[email protected] / www.connexo.io