ICH M7 Guide Sets Validation Principles For Genotoxicity Impurity Testing For New Drugs
Executive Summary
The US FDA has issued a draft question and answer document to the ICH M7 guideline that sheds some light on the validation that needs to be performed before manufactures can rely on the results of computational tests in assessing genotoxic impurities of new drugs.
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