Featured in this edition of iSpeak Reading Roundup, are the top blog posts from May 2022. Discover key insights for cleaning validation practices, risk-based approaches to quality, and more for what the pharmaceutical industry was reading last month.

Paperless Validation is a current topic of interest within the pharmaceutical industry with many companies now adopting or planning to adopt paperless solutions with the promise of improved data integrity and significant efficiency improvements to their existing paper-based validation processes.

It goes without saying that reflecting on the last few years, immense progress has been made in the biopharmaceutical industry. We have seen an industry prioritising collaboration and innovation, combined with a healthy competitive spirit, brought new technology to reality, and achieved milestones in twelve months that would previously have taken a decade.

The exponential increase in demand to manufacture therapeutics including vaccines triggered by the pandemic has stressed the supply chain for single-use products.

It would be easy to say that the pandemic has driven dramatic growth for CDMO companies, as more pharmaceutical firms seek to outsource. Really though, the trend started much earlier, with many CDMOs having put their massive expansion plans in place a year or more before the pandemic took hold.

The ISPE South Central Chapter recently hosted their Inaugural South Central Chapter Education Seminar from College Station, while live-streaming in Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth Area (DFW), and The University of Oklahoma. Each city hosted an in-person networking dinner followed by the sessions on Vaccine/Gene Therapy Manufacturing and Writing User Requirements Specifications.