The EU Response to the Presence of Nitrosamine Impurities in Medicines.

carcinogenicity human medicines linear extrapolation metformin nitrite (NaNO2) nitrosamines ranitidine sartans

Journal

Frontiers in medicine
ISSN: 2296-858X
Titre abrégé: Front Med (Lausanne)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101648047

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 24 09 2021
accepted: 12 10 2021
entrez: 6 12 2021
pubmed: 7 12 2021
medline: 7 12 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The unexpected detection of nitrosamine impurities in human medicines has recently seen global regulators act to understand the risks of these contaminations to patients and to limit their presence. Over 300 nitrosamines are known, many of which are highly potent mutagenic carcinogens. Regulators first became aware of the presence of nitrosamines in EU medicines in 2018, with reports of detection of

Identifiants

pubmed: 34869504
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.782536
pmc: PMC8641785
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

782536

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Ruepp, Frötschl, Bream, Filancia, Girard, Spinei, Weise and Whomsley.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Références

Molecules. 2020 Nov 13;25(22):
pubmed: 33202951

Auteurs

Robin Ruepp (R)

European Medicines Agency, Human Medicines Division, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Roland Frötschl (R)

Licensing Division 2, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitiut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte), Bonn, Germany.

Robert Bream (R)

European Medicines Agency, Human Medicines Division, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Maria Filancia (M)

European Medicines Agency, Human Medicines Division, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Thomas Girard (T)

European Medicines Agency, Human Medicines Division, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Andrei Spinei (A)

European Medicines Agency, Human Medicines Division, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Martina Weise (M)

Licensing Division 2, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitiut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte), Bonn, Germany.

Rhys Whomsley (R)

European Medicines Agency, Human Medicines Division, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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