USP Mulls Rapid Sterility Testing Standards For Cell Therapies, PET Drugs And Sterile Compounding
Executive Summary
USP is looking to develop standards for rapid sterility tests for drugs and biologics. Existing growth-based compendial methods are too slow to obtain results before cell and gene therapies, positron emission tomography drugs and sterile compounded drugs must be used. Quicker methods would improve efficiency in the manufacture of other drugs as well. Detection limits could be orders of magnitude higher without compromising the ability to detect infectious levels of microbiological organisms.
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