Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Forum • no BE between early phase and Phase 3 formulations

no BE between early phase and Phase 3 formulations [Regulatives / Guidelines]

posted by fno – Belgium, 2020-01-22 17:11 (400 d 20:12 ago) – Posting: # 21080
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Thanks Helmut for your feed-back!

» Without digging into guidelines: No. What we have in Phase I/II is sometimes not what I would call a ‘formulation’ in the biopharmaceutical sense at all. Anything goes: Manually filled capsules, lab-scale tablet-presses, etc.

Indeed.

» Doesn’t matter because we are interested in PK (I) and safety (II).

OK but then how to justify in the dossier the extrapolation of some early phase outcomes, e.g. a food effect or an efficacy and/or safety exposure signal... should these key findings be evaluated/demonstrated again with the final formulation?

» Once you move to phase III you are bound to cGMP (though still in pilot-scale). Only when you move from III to the to be marketed formulation, the applicable SUPAC guidance (IR, MR, SS) cut in and very likely you need a BE study.

Yep.

Thank you!

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Kind regards,
Fabrice

Complete thread:

FDA: required BE between early phase and Phase 3 formulations? fno 2020-01-22 15:38 [Regulatives / Guidelines]
- no BE between early phase and Phase 3 formulations Helmut 2020-01-22 16:15
  - no BE between early phase and Phase 3 formulationsfno 2020-01-22 17:11
    - relax Helmut 2020-01-23 11:59
      - Thanks! fno 2020-01-23 14:48
- FDA: required BE between early phase and Phase 3 formulations? Achievwin 2020-01-27 20:06