Demonstrating Bioequivalence of Locally Acting Orally Inhaled Drug Products (OIPs): Workshop Summary Report.
This March 2009 Workshop Summary Report was sponsored by Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) based on a proposal by the Inhalation and Nasal Technology Focus Group (INTFG) of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Participants from the pharmaceutical industry, academia and regulatory bodies from the United States, Europe, India, and Brazil attended the workshop with the objective of presenting, reviewing, and discussing recommendations for demonstrating bioequivalence (BE) that may be considered in the development of orally inhaled drug products and regulatory guidances for new drug applications (NDAs), abbreviated NDAs (ANDAs), and postapproval changes. The workshop addressed areas related to in vitro approaches to demonstrating BE, biomarker strategies, imaging techniques, in vivo approaches to establishing local delivery equivalence and device design similarity. The workshop presented material that provided a baseline for the current understanding of orally inhaled drug products (OIPs) and identified gaps in knowledge and consensus that, if answered, might allow the design of a robust, streamlined method for the BE assessment of locally acting inhalation drugs. These included the following: (1) cascade impactor (CI) studies are not a good 2 predictor of the pulmonary dose; more detailed studies on in vitro/in vivo correlations (e.g., suitability of CI studies for assessing differences in the regional deposition) are needed; (2) there is a lack of consensus on the appropriate statistical methods for assessing in vitro results; (3) fully validated and standardized imaging methods, while capable of providing information on pulmonary dose and regional deposition, might not be applicable to the BE of inhaled products mainly due to the problems of having access to radiolabeled innovator product; (4) if alternatives to current methods for establishing local delivery BE of OIPs cannot be established, biomarkers (pharmacodynamic or clinical endpoints) with a sufficiently steep dose-response need to be identified and validated for all relevant drug classes; and (5) the utility of pharmacokinetic studies for evaluating "local pulmonary delivery" equivalence deserves more attention. A summary of action items for seminars and working groups to address these topics in the future is also presented.
Adams
Wallace P
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Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research , Office of Pharmaceutical Science, Office of Generic Drugs, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Ahrens
Richard C
RC
Chen
Mei-Ling
ML
Christopher
David
D
Chowdhury
Badrul A
BA
Conner
Dale P
DP
Dalby
Richard
R
Fitzgerald
Kevin
K
Hendeles
Leslie
L
Hickey
Anthony J
AJ
Hochhaus
Günther
G
Laube
Beth L
BL
Lucas
Paul
P
Lee
Sau L
SL
Lyapustina
Svetlana
S
Li
Bing
B
O'Connor
Dennis
D
Parikh
Neil
N
Parkins
David A
DA
Peri
Prasad
P
Pitcairn
Gary R
GR
Riebe
Michael
M
Roy
Partha
P
Shah
Tushar
T
Singh
Gur Jai Pal
GJ
Sharp
Sandra Suarez
SS
Suman
Julie D
JD
Weda
Marjolein
M
Woodcock
Janet
J
Yu
Lawrence
L
D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000284:Administration, Oral; D000336:Aerosols / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D006801:Humans; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency
D000336:Aerosols