Combination Products

BioTechLogic’s team can guide you through the matrix of requirements by providing combination products consultancy services for the following:

• Design Control 483 observation trend
• Preparation and review of studies and requirements defined in FDA’s Draft Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff: Technical Considerations for Pen, Jet, and Related Injectors Intended for Use with Drugs and Biological Products
• Preparation of CTD regional sections (e.g., 3.2.R.4 Medical Device) that are founded on the Premarket Notification 510 (k) submission requirements and include information related to Summary Statements, Clinical Considerations, Design Features, Safety Related Features, Biocompatibility, Functional Performance Testing, Suitability and Human Factors Studies
• Preparation and review of functional performance testing protocols that follow ISO 7886-1:1993 (Single Use Syringes), ISO 10993-1:1997 (Medical Device, Evaluation and Testing), ISO 11608:200 (Pen-Injectors), ISO 21649:2006 (Needle-Free Injectors, Requirements and Test methods), ISO 594-2, ASTM D4169: 1999 (Performance Testing of Shipping Containers), ASTM F647 (Device Interaction with Drugs) standards, and FDA’s Draft Guidance for Glass Syringes for Delivering Drug and Biological Products

The following are examples of the services offered by BioTechLogic to help support combination products throughout product development and into commercialization.

Regulatory Affairs

• Provide advice on dossier approaches associated with US submissions
• Liaise with FDA
• Generate and review the Chemical, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) sections of regulatory submissions that support combination products (e.g., 3.2.P.2.4, 3.2.P.3.3, 3.2.P.7, and 3.2.R.4 – Medical Devices [Device Design Controls], etc.)

Quality Assurance

• Quality System Mapping and Quality Planning for products, gaps in the quality system, or transitions to new regulatory requirements
• Establish new quality management systems in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices for Combination Products (21 CFR Part 4)
• Perform design control and design review gap assessments
• Provide on and off-site quality system support including reviewing documentation, generation of system procedures and forms, corrective and/or preventive action recommendations, management review system and training

Design Control Documentation

• Generate a Design and Development SOP or plan including templates for documentation of design inputs, design outputs, design reviews, and design verification
• Generate a Design History File SOP including a Design History File Index
• Support the generation of the following Design Control documents: User Requirements, Design Input, Design Output, and Design Verification Traceability Matrix, Design Verifications, and Design Validations (e.g. Process Validation, Stability and Human Factors Studies)
• Facilitate design reviews, act as an independent reviewer, and prepare design review documentation
• Facilitate the performance of a risk analysis (e.g. QRA FMEA) that identifies risk associated with the device design, its manufacturing process, and intended uses as required by 21 CFR 820.30(g)
• Generate a biocompatibility risk assessment
• Generate a CAPA SOP
• Generate an ISO compliant Purchasing Controls SOP

Combination Products Resources