Inside this issue

• Introducing the new IPEC Europe Chair
• Webinar – Good Distribution Practices for Pharmaceutical Excipients
• New IPEC-PQG GMP Guide now available
• Announcing the revised IPEC GDP Guide (2017 – updated version)
• IPEC-Americas and IPEC Europe publish Risk Assessment Guide
• Barentz joins IPEC Europe
• Save the date! APV/IPEC Europe Excipient Conference 2017
• IPEC Europe calendar
• Commission outlines key criteria for the new EMA hosting country
• EMA and other regulators consider Brexit implications
• EMA sets up whistleblower channel for reporting ‘improprieties’
• PIC/S takes issue with EC’s proposals for different GMP for advanced therapies
• FDA warns of bacteria risk in pharma water systems
• USP call for data to support specific metals tests in USP/NF monographs
• Recommended reading
• Download IPEC Europe guides
• Events calendar