TxCell Announces a Temporary Partial Hold of Activities at its Pilot Manufacturing Unit
TxCell SA has temporarily put its pilot manufacturing facility activities at Besançon, France on partial hold. The decision was made in agreement with the French regulator, Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament, (ANSM).
The decision was made so that TxCell could take action to ensure future compliance with GMP for the Besançon facility. The manufacturing site in Besançon obtained manufacturing authorization on 23 September 2013 (amended on 5 June 2014), as well as GMP certification on 10 June 2014. This pilot manufacturing unit in Besançon is temporary as TxCell intends to move all production to a new commercial GMP manufacturing facility by 2018.
Specifically, the actions taken by TxCell aim at eliminating the risk of microbial contamination of released drug products. At the current time, no contamination has been found in any product manufactured and released from the TxCell Besançon site. Manufacturing of new products by TxCell at Besançon will pause until compliance is ensured. TxCell expects to complete this by the end of the summer. TxCell will then demonstrate GMP compliance. This is expected before the end of the year.
Treatment of patients in the CATS29 study (an ongoing phase IIb clinical trial with Ovasave to treat refractory Crohn patients) for whom at least one injection had been given, will continue. This is subject to the implementation of a risk analysis pre-approved by ANSM.
“Since the decision was already made to engage a supplier (Contract Manufacturing Organization, or ‘CMO’) to enable an acceleration of recruitment in clinical trials from 2016 to 2018, this partial hold should have only potential limited impact on clinical timelines communicated in May 2015 and will not change TxCell’s development plan in the long run,” said Stéphane Boissel, CEO, TxCell. “We will work closely with ANSM, the French regulatory agency, to make sure that all potential issues at Besançon are addressed and hopefully resume to normal production activity at this site by the end of the year. Importantly, no production-related safety event was reported from the beginning of the CATS29 study in December 2014”.
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