WHO issues guidelines on validation on analytical method validation; expects industry to comment by month end.

The article reports on the guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) on validation of analytical method and expects comments from pharmaceutical industry. Topics discussed include consolidation of comments and feedback review by WHO on October 17-21, 2016 and present it at its 51st meeting, analytical methods to be validated by researcher before transferring to the quality control unit and the guidelines stated that trend analysis and risk assessment should be considered.