A regulamentação sanitária de desenvolvimento e registro de medicamentos no Brasil: Inserção no cenário internacional.

The process of developing a product (PD) is vital to the functionality of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), for determining the dosage form, formulation and production process, allowing their therapeutic function. It punctuate the close relationship that the PD has with the step of applying for registration of the drug by Agencia Nacional de Vigilância Sanitaria(ANVISA -Brazilian equivalent to FDA), since it subsidizes the production of pilot batches, which are essential to this request, and various information necessary for structuring documents. However, although endowed with such sums,the regulated sector has no specific guidelines to conduct of the PD. Therefore, the PD is guided by the requirements contained in regulations aimed at the registration request. This thesis aims to evaluate, for the PD, the extent of adherence of health regulations, issued by ANVISA, which provide for the granting of registration of new drugs, generic and similar currently in force, with the international requisites established by the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH). Therefore,it was done a comparison by subject (API, excipients, formulation, production process, packaging system, microbiological attributes and compatibility with diluents for reconstitution) of the regulations m entioned, with the ICH guide, specifically directed to PD -ICH Q8(R2). The principle of the ICH Q8(R2), called the Quality by Design (QbD), used to drive the PD, consists on scientific systematic methodology and risk assessment based on the definition of ideal drug quality characteristics. This structure provides the knowledge of medicine, of the production process and controls. This guide also encourages the construction of the Design Space (DS), which is established by multivariate assessment of inputs and process parameters and the influence of variation on the product quality.The results from the comparison of national regulations in this dissertation dealt with the Guide ICH Q8(R2), shown that the QBD and construction of the DS are not included in these regulations. Thus, the differences between the Guide ICH Q8(R2) and the regulations exceed in quantity and quality of the matches, showing a significant gap in relation to PD, between the national record and considered international thought, represented by the ICH.