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New Proposed Chapter <1153> Drug Products Containing Nanomaterials

Type of Posting: General Announcement
Posting Date: 26–Apr–2019
Expert Committee: General Chapters Dosage Forms 
Proposed New Title: <1153> Drug Products Containing Nanomaterials
Input Deadline: 10–Jun–2019

Estimated proposal PF: Pharmacopeial Forum 45(5) [Sept – Oct 2019] 

Description of scope and application: There are large numbers of formulations containing nanomaterials that are currently under development, under review, or have already received approval from the US FDA requiring the need to identify important properties of these formulations. This new informational general chapter describes materials that have features or structures that exist on the nanoscale in any of the three spatial dimensions.  This chapter provides guidance on the composition and attributes of these nanomaterials because they may impact the quality and performance of drug product. 

Preliminary outline:

  1. Introduction
  2. Names and Definitions
  3. General Quality Tests of Drug Products Containing Nanomaterials   
  4. General Quality Tests
  5. Description of Product Quality Tests

Anticipated implementation timing: routine  

Contact: Kahkashan Zaidi, Principal Scientific Liaison Team Leader, Ph.D., (301- 816-8269), kxz@usp.org


CN-19-037-00