US FDA Expands KASA Platform To Probe API Synthesis, Conduct NDA Quality Reviews
Executive Summary
Agency builds on success with last year’s KASA-based ANDA quality reviews to widen and deepen the software tool’s functionality, says CDER OPQ leadership. CMC assessors are adapting quickly to a platform that could soon alert them to issues like possible genotoxic impurity formation during API synthesis.
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