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Home » EMA suspends Semler’s medicines over flawed studies

EMA suspends Semler’s medicines over flawed studies

July 25, 2016
CenterWatch Staff

The EMA has recommended suspending a number of nationally approved medicines for which bioequivalence studies were conducted at Semler Research Centre Private Ltd, Bangalore, India. The Agency has also recommended that medicines currently being evaluated for authorization and which rely only on bioequivalence studies from this site should not be authorized until bioequivalence is demonstrated using alternative data. Bioequivalence studies usually form the basis for approval of generic medicines.

EMA’s review followed an FDA inspection that identified several issues at Semler’s bioanalytical site, including the substitution and manipulation of subjects’ clinical samples. The World Health Organization (WHO) also raised serious concerns regarding data integrity and manipulation of study samples following its own inspections of Semler’s bioanalytical and clinical sites.

The findings from FDA and WHO inspections call into question the quality management system in place at Semler, and thus on the reliability of the data of all bioequivalence studies, including those used to support marketing authorization applications in the EU. EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has concluded that the studies conducted at Semler cannot be accepted in marketing authorization applications in the EU. Thus, no medicines can be approved on the basis of these studies.

During the evaluation, alternative studies were provided for some of these medicines. These studies show bioequivalence, and therefore, the CHMP has recommended that these medicines can remain on the market.

Some of the medicines which have been recommended for suspension may be of critical importance (e.g. due to lack of available alternatives) in a given EU Member State. Therefore national authorities can temporarily postpone the suspension in the interest of patients. Member States should also decide whether recalls of the affected medicines are needed in their territories.

The CHMP’s recommendation concerning these medicines will now be sent to the European Commission for a legally binding decision valid throughout the EU.

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