Human Blood Origin Materials for Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing Supplier Questionnaire

May 24, 2022

Materials derived from human blood such as human serum albumin and transferrin are frequently used either as components of cell culture medium or in other processes. Suppliers of such reagents have incorporated multiple mitigation steps such as sourcing pharmaceutical grade or licensed drug product, sourcing from safe geographical regions, testing for contaminants and inactivation. In addition, this information needs to be available for review during inspections and in regulatory filings. This questionnaire is a comprehensive list of those requirements and will be a useful document for reference.

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Natural Disaster Contingency Planning Version 2.0

October 5, 2021

Rx-360, an International Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Consortium has created this Natural Disaster Contingency Planning guideline in response to natural disasters our members are experiencing. This guideline can serve as a baseline to assist in proactively considering how your organization would internally react in the unfortunate circumstance that a natural disaster impacts one of your business locations.

Rx-360 Guidance and Best Practices for Raw Material Supply Chain Security for Cell and Gene Therapies

May 13, 2021

Cell and gene therapies (CGT) are novel therapeutic modalities with greater than one thousand clinical trials ongoing globally.   The unmet need for treatment options and the promise of these therapies has prompted regulatory agencies world-wide […]

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Rx-360 Supplier Assessment Questionnaire Team Publishes Module 6 – Single Use Bioprocessing Product Questionnaire

May 5, 2021

The Rx-360 Supplier Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) team, a sub-committee of the Rx-360 Supplier Quality Working Group (SQWG), is very pleased to announce the release of the newest module of the Supplier Assessment Questionnaire Kit: Module […]

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Supplier Assessment Questionnaire

January 19, 2021

Background on Supplier Assessment Questionnaire Pharmaceutical manufacturers and industry suppliers recognize the inefficiency and waste of resources when each individual pharmaceutical company creates its own supplier assessment questionnaire. Suppliers routinely exhaust valuable resources continuously completing […]

Rx-360 Technical Visit Guidelines for the Regulated Medical Product Industry Upstream Supply Chain

October 27, 2020

Supplier qualification audits and supplier technical visits are part of routine operations when working in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.  Many times, technical visits and audits are confused with one another because there is some […]

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Managing Critical Vendors

July 26, 2019

Introduction: The manufacture of medical products, drugs and devices is highly regulated all over the world. All aspects of the manufacturing process, from product design to product delivery, require documented procedures. Key points in the […]