Ian Harwood has over 35 years experience of pharmaceutical manufacturing and GMP regulatory inspection.  He has experience of a wide range of pharmaceutical dosage forms ranging from non sterile manufacture of tablets, capsules creams and ointments through to large and small scale sterile manufacture, both terminal sterilisation and aseptic manufacture.

At the MHRA Ian has been the technical lead on unlicensed medicines and aseptic manufacture.  He has also gained significant experience of working with companies that have compliance issues  which have resulted in referrals to the Inspection action Group and Compliance Management Teams.

At MHRA Ian gained the following experience:

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• Technical Lead for Unlicensed Medicines

• Represented MHRA at various industry and NHS groups including NHS QA Committee, UK Radiopharmaceutical Group, BNSA.

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Conducted numerous inspections, overseas and in UK in the following areas:

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• Sterile Manufacture

• Non Sterile Manufacture

• Unlicensed Medicines (Specials)

• IMPs

• Radiopharmaceuticals

• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

• Biologicals

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Experience of inspecting with other regulatory agencies.